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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kahal29: 8:35pm On Sep 25, 2016
All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who he claimed Sunday had derailed from the path of progressives.

In a stinking communiqué from his media office, Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used had been tampered with.

Tinubu in the communiqué further alleged that Oyegun’s action in allegedly subverting the will of the people was not of his doing, saying that for a man of the age of the national chairman to have done what he did that he must have been under the influence of a “powerful and sinister arm at work.”

Tinubu who said that the APC was now under threat of being suffocated by anti-democratic forces pretending to be progressives, said:

“The APC, a party born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical threat by those who managed to be in the party but never of it. From the party’s inception, the principles of democratic fairness and justice were to guide APC internal deliberations. Party founders realized that only by intramural fair dealing could the party remain faithful to the progressive ideals that we presented to the Nigerian electorate as our governing creed. If the party could not justly govern itself, it would find it difficult to establish and maintain just government throughout the nation.

“In essence, the party was the embodiment of a democratic promise made between its members as well as a democratic vow made to the public. Evidently, some errant members believe promises and vows are mere words to be easily spoken and more easily broken. Chairman John Oyegun has breached these good pledges in a most overt and brazen display. In doing so, Oyegun has dealt a heavy blow to the very party he professes to lead. It is an awful parent who suffocates his own child for the sake of a few naira. The party was supposed to buttress APC members elected to government at all levels. Because of Oyegun’s conduct of our affairs, the party is rapidly becoming an albatross to those it was meant to help.

“Oyegun’s comportment regarding the Ondo State primary will become the textbook definition of political treachery and malfeasance of the basest order. In early September, the state primary was held. A purported winner was named. Having faith in the ways of the party, Tinubu publicly accepted what he assumed to be a verdict honestly derived. As a democrat, one must face the possibility of defeat and accept such as outcome with as much grace as one would embrace victory. One of the few bright spots during the conduct of the primaries was Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar. He chaired the primary convention with decorum and impartiality. He was unaware that a tampered list had been slipped into the process.

“Indeed within hours of the announcement, news began to filter in that gravely disturbed me. Credible allegations of fraud troubled the waters. The delegate list had been materially altered by someone in a strategic position to so do. The names of over 150 valid delegates were excised to make room for an equal number of impostors. This was not a clerical error. The alteration was wilfully executed that the primary would be directed toward a chosen end that bore nothing in common with the will of most state party members. A cunning few had tried to deceive the many into believing they were outnumbered.

“A conspiracy to steal the Ondo primary had been uncovered. Fortunately, the grand deception afoot had been unable to cover its tracks fast enough. Truth began to cry for justice.

“Several candidates filed petitions contesting the result. The party established an investigative board to review the evidence. In a two to one decision, the panel found the delegate roster had suffered tampering. The panel recommended that a new primary should be held using the valid delegate list. This recommendation was tabled before the National Working Committee (NWC).

“After many hours of deliberations spanning several days, a final vote was held by the NWC. Before hand, NWC members agreed that the decision of the majority would become the stance of the party. Such is the way of democracy. The NWC voted six against five to cancel the fraudulent results and hold an honest primary. For a moment, it seemed the party would restore its integrity by giving democracy a chance. However, those who sought to scam an entire state would not let the vote of 11 people spoil their enterprise.

“After the NWC vote, a noticeably agitated Chairman Oyegun proposed the NWC engage in prayer before concluding the meeting. Adhering to this chairman’s request, NWC members began to pray. Seeing that the others had taken his bait, Oyegun used the prayerful interlude to secretly excuse himself from the meeting. Contravening the NWC decision and in violation of all rules of fundamental decency, Oyegun decided to safeguard the fraud done in Ondo by perpetrating a greater fraud. Oyegun arrogated to himself the right to submit the name of Rotimi Akeredolu to INEC as the candidate of the party.

“Truth has finally come to light. There exists a regressive element in the party that cares nothing for the progressive ideas upon which this party was founded. They joined the APC because it was the best ride available at the time. Now they want to guide the party into the ditch. They want to turn the party into a soulless entity incapable of doing good, just like they are. When such a person tastes power, they shed all good restraint. They come to abuse the trust given them as if they are the owners of that trust and not its mere custodians. These people did little to build the party but now will do much to wreck it.

“Our party was to stand for change. Oyegun and his fellows seem to be on a different wave length. They are the cohort of Unchange. The APC wants to guide Nigeria into a better tomorrow. Oyegun and the cohort of unchange want to pull Nigeria back into the past where rigging and vote stealing were the old and new testaments of politics. They want the people to think that there is no alternative to their reactionary system of skewed politics and imperious government. Thus, they seek to turn the APC into a factory of the very political malpractices the people soundly rejected in the past election. To choke the APC in this manner is to kill the chance for progressive reform for the foreseeable future. Much more than the Ondo primary is at stake. Oyegun has revealed his team’s game plan: It is the destruction of progressive politics and governance on behalf of the people.

“As party chairman, Oyegun was supposed to protect our internal processes and be an impartial arbiter, a person in whom all had confidence. Instead, he donned the garment of a confident man, duping the NWC, the party, and INEC in one fell blow. He has robbed APC members in Ondo State of the chance to pick in a fair manner who they believe is the best candidate.

“As such, he has broken faith with the party and probably has broken a few laws. The consequences of what he has done are more expansive than a man of his scope can fathom,” Tinubu said as he said that Oyegun must have been under some major sinister influence as to allow what happened.

“With strong expectation, we await a response to Oyegun’s wrongdoing from those who clamored so long and loudly about Tinubu’s alleged role in the Ondo primary.

“Leading into the primary, a prominent lawyer from Ondo published lengthy missives alleging that Tinubu was a malicious hand intent on rigging the primary. His letters spoke of his great love for democracy and justice. Though Oyegun has assaulted democracy in a most public and vulgar way, this lawyer’s prolific pen will remain stilled. He dare not publish a word about this travesty. His silence will be sign for all who care to decipher its meaning.

“The plan was to point the accusing finger at Tinubu. With everyone focused on Tinubu, they would have distracted all attention from the heist they had set in motion. As fate would have it, the trickery they hoped to conduct in the shadows has come to light.

“Those who so actively attributed imaginary wrong to Tinubu now stand dumb and mute in the face of confirmed impropriety. They remain silent for reasons they cannot divulge. Oyegun and his ilk turn out to be gangsters adorned in the tunic of party authority.

“Oyegun has engaged in the strange math where five is greater than six. This smacks of how the PDP conducted its affairs and orchestrated its own downfall. Tinubu disparaged such malpractice when it was not in his party. Tinubu surely disowns it now that it has invaded the party he helped bring to fruition.

“Tinubu has consciously refused to hold any official position with the party to avoid the perception that he was trying to control all and sundry. Tinubu has even kept his peace for some time despite many things that happened within the party that were not quite right. He exercised this forbearance because the party is young. A collective endeavor cannot avoid the mistakes and errors of organizational newness and evolution.

“Yet, the wrongs Oyegun committed had nothing to do with newness or the mistakes occasioned by the path of reform. His actions are in the nature of the old wrongs that have afflicted our national politics much too long. If Oyegun wants to walk backward into the past, he has every right to it. However, he has no right to drag the party or any of us with him. Against our choosing.

“The informal title of national leader of the party was given to Tinubu at the onset which he accepted it as a sign from those who wished to recognize my contributions to the party’s formation. It is an honorific title which he has been proud to wear until today. I would rather not have any title yet reside in a party that honors democracy than hold a title in a party that says it honors me but that treats justice with indecency. I find greater honour and comfort where democracy and fairness are found and respected.

“Oyegun has done the irredeemable. His coup is an insult to party and to patriot, to reason and to the reform agenda of this government. To remain silent would be to admit the defeat of the reform and progressive change many have labored to bring forth. While the forces resistant to change and reform are strong, Tinubu dare not submit to them. Tinubu encourages all party members not to submit to them. If we acquiesce in this wrong, the one greater than this shall cascade upon us.

“Oyegun’s transgressions are a warning. He is but the mercenary of forces that seek to return the nation to the old ways. If they get away with this infraction, no telling what or whom they will undermine tomorrow. Much is at stake. On the chopping block, lies the future of the political party in which the majority of voters had placed their confidence. To rescue the party, Oyegun must go. He has shown that he and democratic fair play cannot exist in the same party at the same time. If Tinubu is to choose between John Oyegun and progress toward a better Nigeria, the choice has already been made. For those who care about the party, who care about Nigeria and its chance for a better tomorrow, now is the time to stand against this brewing evil before it grows to encompass all we have built and all we hold dear.”


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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by afroniger: 8:38pm On Sep 25, 2016
kahal29:
All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who he claimed Sunday had derailed from the path of progressives.

Source?? Your soup no sweet without source, you know how we roll here. But in any case...

There seems to be a calculated plan being spearheaded by some influential people at the Presidency to destabilize the SouthWest APC by seizing the structure of the Party from Tinubu's influence, maybe in the hope that he won't have as much influence as he did the last time around. But if care is not taken, this may end up being the undoing of this administration come 2019 because PMB is fast becoming very unpopular all over the country, including the SW, by the day, therefore if the administration doesn't begin to deliver on its promises, I don't see the President winning the region come 2019 (should he choose to run for re-election). With the hostile attitude towards Tinubu (who has been loyal to PMB thus far), he can certainly forget winning Lagos. I doubt if he can win Oyo as well again because Oyo is a very volatile state politically and the mystic that led APC to victory there last year has since worn-off. Osun and Ekiti will be no-go areas too.

As things stand, Ondo is probably going to remain PDP considering this avoidable APC crisis that has the Presidency's fingerprints all over it. Politics 101 tells us that you can only rig successfully where you are popular, which was why Fayemi lost to Fayose, even though Oshokomole clearly had a lot of help rigging that election to unseat an incumbent. I don't know who is advising Buhari, but he needs to understand that he can't win re-election without the SouthWest and the Middlebelt where he is fast losing popularity (history has taught us that he needs more than the NorthWest and NorthEast to win an election, the SouthEast and SouthSouth are no-go areas for him), so he shouldn't make things any worse for himself by alienating the very people that helped him win the last time around (after previous failed attempts) for political neophytes who can't even win their own polling unit or ward.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by morbeta(m): 8:39pm On Sep 25, 2016
If it's true then there is trouble in witches coven.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by thesicilian: 8:39pm On Sep 25, 2016
Were they ever on the path of the progressives?

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Nobody: 8:40pm On Sep 25, 2016
Hypocrisy of the highest order. This Tinubu must be high on coke

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by sarrki(m): 8:40pm On Sep 25, 2016
Add source


If actually he tampered with the delegates list

He should do the honorable thing

You will see Wailers will troop here now

Tinubu is there nightmare

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Jokerman(m): 8:41pm On Sep 25, 2016
Tinubu we have ur case file o... if you do pass yourself we will send EFCC to you.... grin

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by sarrki(m): 8:43pm On Sep 25, 2016
Omoakinsuyi:
Hypocrisy of the highest order. This Tinubu must be high on coke

Do you read why he said that?

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Hiploko(m): 8:44pm On Sep 25, 2016
sarrki:
Add source


If actually he tampered with the delegates list

He should do the honorable thing

You will see Wailers will troop here now

Tinubu is there nightmare
their!!!!! Gosh.....

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by BuariCopyPaste: 8:45pm On Sep 25, 2016
The jagaban of corruption should shut up before we send Dino after his wife.

When he was busy gathering and aligning with the backward and hegemonic North, we warned him.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kahal29: 8:47pm On Sep 25, 2016
Omoakinsuyi:
Hypocrisy of the highest order. This Tinubu must be high on coke

Seriously Seriously.... Saraki will be laughing in swahili. Just because his candidate lost then Oyegun is no longer a progressive

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Edmanpumpin(m): 8:47pm On Sep 25, 2016
Ghen-Ghen-Ghen-Ghen...... And The Implosion Begins In Akotileta Peoples Congress (APC).

We genuine Omoluabi Yooba atata (Not Afonja's) do have this saying that: "ile ti a ba fi ito mon, wiwo nio wo (House built with spit will surely collapse).

Amuda ogunlere A.k.a Bola Tinubu just got served. He was beaten to his game by the Fulani/Kaduna mafia he gullibly/greedily help enthroned through massive Media propaganda, buying of the conscience of so called NGO's and cashtivists like Femi Falana etc.

Now that he is outsmarted/played bigtime and his candidate lost to the puppet of the Fulani/Hausa/Kaduna mafia, he is writing some epistle worth Lawma's trash can.

You were used to playing Draught in Lagos,
only to meet people playing Chess at the Federal level.

Don't worry Jagaban Amuda Ogunlere, your cash-cow Lagos state treasury is still available to be milked by you as usual.

OMG! Hahahaha..... Our elders in Afenifere like Chief Ayo Adebanjo & co, you so abused and dragged on the floor through your numerous actions and via your traditional/online media jobbers/warriors will be saying "shior, eni a fe pa, to tun fi epo yira loro Amuda yi".

Amuda, I laughed seeing you still mentioning 'Progressive' in this Buhari era ti oju awon eyan ti la(where people are no more gullible). You better go and sit-down with that lame "Progressive" rubbish jargon cos there is no inkling of Progressive in you and your kind.

Ojuyobo, God help you if you are not the one eventually forced to leave the curse of a Party APC, you and your manipulative kind help foist on some gullible Yoruba's.

You Tinubuists should start composing a Dirge for your
Lord because the latest tools in the hands of the Northern mafia Messrs Fayemi, Fashola, Akeredolu & Amosun
are closing in on his Fake Political 'Empire'.

Pele o Tinubu, akowe ko wura. More ink to your pen. Wa tun ko emi laipe. Oshisco!

Better go and sniff on your usual 'Crystal/Stone' to cool off.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kahal29: 8:48pm On Sep 25, 2016
Jokerman:
Tinubu we have ur case file o... if you do pass yourself we will send EFCC to you.... grin

Hahaha.... Am loving this..... Implosion loading

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kcnwaigbo: 8:49pm On Sep 25, 2016
National leader ko international leader ni. That title national leader of the APC is a title created by the SW Media. Tinubu has outlived his usefulness. He is now irrelevant in the scheme of things

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Hiploko(m): 8:49pm On Sep 25, 2016
Edmanpumpin:
And The Implosion Begins
gbam! Karma @ work... Tower of Babel!

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by iamodenigbo1(m): 8:51pm On Sep 25, 2016
there is trouble in APC

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by mamabomboy: 8:54pm On Sep 25, 2016
Phoolish Yoruba man. Your days are numbered. APC will be your burial site. Oyegun, please hurry up and send this phool and his supporters to their ancestors.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by anigbajumo(m): 9:00pm On Sep 25, 2016
Am still yet to bliv this news...
Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kcnwaigbo: 9:03pm On Sep 25, 2016
anigbajumo:
Am still yet to bliv this news...
Oga eme unu vuum na anya

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kcnwaigbo: 9:04pm On Sep 25, 2016
kahal29:


Seriously Seriously.... Saraki will be laughing in swahili. Just because his candidate lost then Oyegun is no longer a progressive
I laugh in Saraki's voice

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kahal29: 9:05pm On Sep 25, 2016
afroniger:


Source?? Your soup no sweet without source, you know how we roll here. But in any case...

There seems to be a calculated plan being spearheaded by some influential people at the Presidency to destabilize the SouthWest APC by seizing the structure of the Party from Tinubu's influence, maybe in the hope that he won't have as much influence as he did the last time around. But if care is not taken, this may end up being the undoing of this administration come 2019 because PMB is fast becoming very unpopular all over the country, including the SW, by the day, therefore if the administration doesn't begin to deliver on its promises, I don't see the President winning the region come 2019 (should he choose to run for re-election). With the hostile attitude towards Tinubu, he can certainly forget winning Lagos. I doubt if he can win Oyo as well again because Oyo is a very volatile state politically and the mystic that led APC to victory there last year has since worn-off.

As things stand, Ondo is probably going to remain PDP considering this avoidable APC crisis that has the Presidency's fingerprints all over it. Politics 101 tells us that you can only rig successfully where you are popular, which was why Fayemi lost to Fayose, even though Oshokomole clearly had a lot of help rigging that election to unseat an incumbent. I don't know who is advising Buhari, but he needs to understand that he can't win re-election without the SouthWest and the Middlebelt where he is fast losing popularity (history has taught us that he needs more than the NorthWest and NorthEast to win an election, the SouthEast and SouthSouth are no-go areas for him), so he shouldn't make things any worse for himself by alienating the very people that helped him win the last time around (after previous failed attempts) for political neophytes who can't even win their own polling unit or ward.


My question is this.... Why is it that anytime Tinubu looses out in a particular thing he begins to cause trouble? Is he the only person that worked for the success of APC? Others also did and have not gotten anything since may last year but they are still keeping their cool waiting for their time of reward while he himself got the VP position, FIRS Chair, Budget office head, NCC board etc... What else does he want? Let him go ahead and destroy the so called APC house he claimed to have built and all of them will get back to square one. He was the person who installed Oyegun which made Tom Ikimi to leave the party for him. Now he is coming after him just because the man refused to do his biding and assert his authority but he forgot that Obi is no longer a boy but has grown into a full man. I knew he has been harboring some ill feelings against Oyegun ever since the party choose yahaya Bello in Kogi instead of his anointed servant - Faleke but choose to show it now. More comments from Premium Times attached

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by kahal29: 9:07pm On Sep 25, 2016
kcnwaigbo:

I laugh in Saraki's voice

Nwanne is been a while. Kedu ka ihe si aga?

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by DIVINE78: 9:09pm On Sep 25, 2016
Oyegun is a big disgrace. He is a puppet in the hands of northern element. This is the same man Tinubu made APC chairman when the likes of Atiku prefered Tom Ikimi. Oyegun is a big disappointment.
This is the same oyegun that took order from the atiku and sultan and installed a Muslim governor in kogi. Faleke said since the candidacy tussle oyegun never for once called him or met with him.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by DIVINE78: 9:10pm On Sep 25, 2016
Oyegun is a disgrace.

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Olril18(m): 9:10pm On Sep 25, 2016
kahal29:
All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who he claimed Sunday had derailed from the path of progressives.

In a stinking communiqué from his media office, Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used had been tampered with.

Tinubu in the communiqué further alleged that Oyegun’s action in allegedly subverting the will of the people was not of his doing, saying that for a man of the age of the national chairman to have done what he did that he must have been under the influence of a “powerful and sinister arm at work.”

Tinubu who said that the APC was now under threat of being suffocated by anti-democratic forces pretending to be progressives, said:

“The APC, a party born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical threat by those who managed to be in the party but never of it. From the party’s inception, the principles of democratic fairness and justice were to guide APC internal deliberations. Party founders realized that only by intramural fair dealing could the party remain faithful to the progressive ideals that we presented to the Nigerian electorate as our governing creed. If the party could not justly govern itself, it would find it difficult to establish and maintain just government throughout the nation.

“In essence, the party was the embodiment of a democratic promise made between its members as well as a democratic vow made to the public. Evidently, some errant members believe promises and vows are mere words to be easily spoken and more easily broken. Chairman John Oyegun has breached these good pledges in a most overt and brazen display. In doing so, Oyegun has dealt a heavy blow to the very party he professes to lead. It is an awful parent who suffocates his own child for the sake of a few naira. The party was supposed to buttress APC members elected to government at all levels. Because of Oyegun’s conduct of our affairs, the party is rapidly becoming an albatross to those it was meant to help.

“Oyegun’s comportment regarding the Ondo State primary will become the textbook definition of political treachery and malfeasance of the basest order. In early September, the state primary was held. A purported winner was named. Having faith in the ways of the party, Tinubu publicly accepted what he assumed to be a verdict honestly derived. As a democrat, one must face the possibility of defeat and accept such as outcome with as much grace as one would embrace victory. One of the few bright spots during the conduct of the primaries was Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar. He chaired the primary convention with decorum and impartiality. He was unaware that a tampered list had been slipped into the process.

“Indeed within hours of the announcement, news began to filter in that gravely disturbed me. Credible allegations of fraud troubled the waters. The delegate list had been materially altered by someone in a strategic position to so do. The names of over 150 valid delegates were excised to make room for an equal number of impostors. This was not a clerical error. The alteration was wilfully executed that the primary would be directed toward a chosen end that bore nothing in common with the will of most state party members. A cunning few had tried to deceive the many into believing they were outnumbered.

“A conspiracy to steal the Ondo primary had been uncovered. Fortunately, the grand deception afoot had been unable to cover its tracks fast enough. Truth began to cry for justice.

“Several candidates filed petitions contesting the result. The party established an investigative board to review the evidence. In a two to one decision, the panel found the delegate roster had suffered tampering. The panel recommended that a new primary should be held using the valid delegate list. This recommendation was tabled before the National Working Committee (NWC).

“After many hours of deliberations spanning several days, a final vote was held by the NWC. Before hand, NWC members agreed that the decision of the majority would become the stance of the party. Such is the way of democracy. The NWC voted six against five to cancel the fraudulent results and hold an honest primary. For a moment, it seemed the party would restore its integrity by giving democracy a chance. However, those who sought to scam an entire state would not let the vote of 11 people spoil their enterprise.

“After the NWC vote, a noticeably agitated Chairman Oyegun proposed the NWC engage in prayer before concluding the meeting. Adhering to this chairman’s request, NWC members began to pray. Seeing that the others had taken his bait, Oyegun used the prayerful interlude to secretly excuse himself from the meeting. Contravening the NWC decision and in violation of all rules of fundamental decency, Oyegun decided to safeguard the fraud done in Ondo by perpetrating a greater fraud. Oyegun arrogated to himself the right to submit the name of Rotimi Akeredolu to INEC as the candidate of the party.

“Truth has finally come to light. There exists a regressive element in the party that cares nothing for the progressive ideas upon which this party was founded. They joined the APC because it was the best ride available at the time. Now they want to guide the party into the ditch. They want to turn the party into a soulless entity incapable of doing good, just like they are. When such a person tastes power, they shed all good restraint. They come to abuse the trust given them as if they are the owners of that trust and not its mere custodians. These people did little to build the party but now will do much to wreck it.

“Our party was to stand for change. Oyegun and his fellows seem to be on a different wave length. They are the cohort of Unchange. The APC wants to guide Nigeria into a better tomorrow. Oyegun and the cohort of unchange want to pull Nigeria back into the past where rigging and vote stealing were the old and new testaments of politics. They want the people to think that there is no alternative to their reactionary system of skewed politics and imperious government. Thus, they seek to turn the APC into a factory of the very political malpractices the people soundly rejected in the past election. To choke the APC in this manner is to kill the chance for progressive reform for the foreseeable future. Much more than the Ondo primary is at stake. Oyegun has revealed his team’s game plan: It is the destruction of progressive politics and governance on behalf of the people.

“As party chairman, Oyegun was supposed to protect our internal processes and be an impartial arbiter, a person in whom all had confidence. Instead, he donned the garment of a confident man, duping the NWC, the party, and INEC in one fell blow. He has robbed APC members in Ondo State of the chance to pick in a fair manner who they believe is the best candidate.

“As such, he has broken faith with the party and probably has broken a few laws. The consequences of what he has done are more expansive than a man of his scope can fathom,” Tinubu said as he said that Oyegun must have been under some major sinister influence as to allow what happened.

“With strong expectation, we await a response to Oyegun’s wrongdoing from those who clamored so long and loudly about Tinubu’s alleged role in the Ondo primary.

“Leading into the primary, a prominent lawyer from Ondo published lengthy missives alleging that Tinubu was a malicious hand intent on rigging the primary. His letters spoke of his great love for democracy and justice. Though Oyegun has assaulted democracy in a most public and vulgar way, this lawyer’s prolific pen will remain stilled. He dare not publish a word about this travesty. His silence will be sign for all who care to decipher its meaning.

“The plan was to point the accusing finger at Tinubu. With everyone focused on Tinubu, they would have distracted all attention from the heist they had set in motion. As fate would have it, the trickery they hoped to conduct in the shadows has come to light.

“Those who so actively attributed imaginary wrong to Tinubu now stand dumb and mute in the face of confirmed impropriety. They remain silent for reasons they cannot divulge. Oyegun and his ilk turn out to be gangsters adorned in the tunic of party authority.

“Oyegun has engaged in the strange math where five is greater than six. This smacks of how the PDP conducted its affairs and orchestrated its own downfall. Tinubu disparaged such malpractice when it was not in his party. Tinubu surely disowns it now that it has invaded the party he helped bring to fruition.

“Tinubu has consciously refused to hold any official position with the party to avoid the perception that he was trying to control all and sundry. Tinubu has even kept his peace for some time despite many things that happened within the party that were not quite right. He exercised this forbearance because the party is young. A collective endeavor cannot avoid the mistakes and errors of organizational newness and evolution.

“Yet, the wrongs Oyegun committed had nothing to do with newness or the mistakes occasioned by the path of reform. His actions are in the nature of the old wrongs that have afflicted our national politics much too long. If Oyegun wants to walk backward into the past, he has every right to it. However, he has no right to drag the party or any of us with him. Against our choosing.

“The informal title of national leader of the party was given to Tinubu at the onset which he accepted it as a sign from those who wished to recognize my contributions to the party’s formation. It is an honorific title which he has been proud to wear until today. I would rather not have any title yet reside in a party that honors democracy than hold a title in a party that says it honors me but that treats justice with indecency. I find greater honour and comfort where democracy and fairness are found and respected.

“Oyegun has done the irredeemable. His coup is an insult to party and to patriot, to reason and to the reform agenda of this government. To remain silent would be to admit the defeat of the reform and progressive change many have labored to bring forth. While the forces resistant to change and reform are strong, Tinubu dare not submit to them. Tinubu encourages all party members not to submit to them. If we acquiesce in this wrong, the one greater than this shall cascade upon us.

“Oyegun’s transgressions are a warning. He is but the mercenary of forces that seek to return the nation to the old ways. If they get away with this infraction, no telling what or whom they will undermine tomorrow. Much is at stake. On the chopping block, lies the future of the political party in which the majority of voters had placed their confidence. To rescue the party, Oyegun must go. He has shown that he and democratic fair play cannot exist in the same party at the same time. If Tinubu is to choose between John Oyegun and progress toward a better Nigeria, the choice has already been made. For those who th about the party, who care about Nigeria and its chance for a better tomorrow, now is the time to stand against this brewing evil before it grows to encompass all we have built and all we hold dear.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu-demands-john-odigie-oyegun-resignation/
shut up ur stinking mouth tinubu!

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by dunkem21(m): 9:11pm On Sep 25, 2016
This wailing too long jare cheesy
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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by OAUTemitayo: 9:14pm On Sep 25, 2016
kahal29:


Seriously Seriously.... Saraki will be laughing in swahili. Just because his candidate lost then Oyegun is no longer a progressive
Hypocrite! Let Oyegun defend the allegations instead of talking nonsense. We knew Oyegun was part of the Saraki charade.
Fake Progressives!

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Nobody: 9:19pm On Sep 25, 2016
kahal29:



My question is this.... Why is it that anytime Tinubu looses out in a particular thing he begins to cause trouble? Is he the only person that worked for the success of APC? Others also did and have not gotten anything since may last year but they are still keeping their cool waiting for their time of reward while he himself got the VP position, FIRS Chair, Budget office head, NCC board etc... What else does he want? Let him go ahead and destroy the so called APC house he claimed to have built and all of them will get back to square one. He was the person who installed Oyegun which made Tom Ikimi to leave the party for him. Now he is coming after him just because the man refused to do his biding and assert his authority but he forgot that Obi is no longer a boy but has grown into a full man. I knew he has been harboring some ill feelings against Oyegun ever since the party choose yahaya Bello in Kogi instead of his anointed servant - Faleke but choose to show it now.

Where's the sense in this your comment? There was alteration of delegate list as contained in the report of the appeal committee, subject to which a cancellation of the process was recommended, national working committee after careful perusal of the report upheld the recommendation. Oyegun unilaterally submitted the name of Akeredolu against the recommendation of the appeal committee and the decision of NWC. Tell me where Tinubu erred

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by ificatchmodeh: 9:22pm On Sep 25, 2016
grin grin grin
They don dribble jagaban for him penalty box..na to score remain cheesy

Can't wait..
Everything that has beginning will always have an end..

But the west don't always learn..from akintola,awolowo abiola..obj escaped..lucky man. ..then to tinubu..
Let's see. Au this end.
Ofcourse it will end someday. kiss

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by TonyeBarcanista(m): 9:23pm On Sep 25, 2016
Oyegun is a disgrace, how could he override the verdict of majority? I sympathise with Jagaban and I hope he come over to the Umbrella side of the divide.

APC is too undemocratic

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by Nobody: 9:25pm On Sep 25, 2016
This calculated attempt by the presidency to undermine Tinubu will spell doom for APC in no small measure. APC with Akeredolu on the list CANNOT win ondo state.

That was how some political neophytes was cheering GEJ on during his inglorious days of highhandedness against Obj, the rest is history.

You might want to argue that PMB is not GEJ, but for the record, he failed three consecutive times when he only relied on his almajiris alone for victory, he was rebranded by some people...

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Re: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Demands John Odigie-oyegun Resignation by TonyeBarcanista(m): 9:26pm On Sep 25, 2016
OAUTemitayo:
Hypocrite! Let Oyegun defend the allegations instead of talking nonsense. We knew Oyegun was part of the Saraki charade.
Fake Progressives!
There is nothing for Oyegun to defend guy, he is a disgrace. He is acting an undemocratic script which APC represents.

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