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John Odigie-Oyegun, APC Chairman The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Oyegun, has reacted to the call by a former Lagos governor and a leader of the party, Ahmed Tinubu, that he should resign.

Mr. Oyegun said the national chairman of a party cannot be removed on the pages of newspapers. He said Mr. Tinubu’s letter accusing him of highhandedness and being a mole in the party, was a “bit too harsh”, but said the two politicians merely had a “difference of opinion”.
Mr. Tinubu came down hard on Mr. Oyegun in a lengthy statement last week, accusing the party chairman of betrayal and fraud.

“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,” Mr. Tinubu said. “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.”

Mr. Oyegun responded on Tuesday at the presidential villa after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

“The method of getting rid of a national chairman if that is what I will call it, are spelt out in the constitution. They don’t take place on the pages of newspapers,” Mr. Oyegun told journalists. He however insisted that there was no rift with Mr. Tinubu.

"We have differences of opinion, differences of perception and I think that is normal. Yes, I agree that the nature of the statement was a bit harsh,” he said. Asked whether the party would reverse its decision on the Ondo election primaries, since it was causing crisis in the party, Mr. Oyegun said, "It is only INEC that can make U-turn on Ondo”.

Mr. Tinubu had faulted Mr. Oyegun’s refusal to heed the recommendation of the party’s panel to cancel the Ondo primary that produced Rotimi Akeredolu as the party’s candidate. He called for Mr. Odigie-Oyegun’s resignation. Mr. Odigie-Oyegun, who refused to go into details of what happened in the Ondo primary, told journalists that the report was with the Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar, the chairman of the primaries committee.

The two party leaders had met on Monday at President Muhammadu Buhari’s book launch in Abuja. It was their first meeting since Mr. Tinubu issued the statement on Mr. Oyegun.

On allegations that he sponsored some youth who protested at the party’s headquarters against the alleged highhandedness of Mr. Tinubu, the APC national chairman said, “God forbid, anybody who knows me knows that that is not my style. I’m equally shocked and I’m going to look into it and find out why and who is behind it”.

Asked if the handshake and pleasantries shared with Mr. Tinubu at Buhari’s book launch were genuine, he replied, “Do they know how far back our association goes? Do they know that we were in the trenches together in the NADECO days? Why can’t people who have mutual respect for each other have different opinions? All we had was difference of opinions, yes it was expressed a bit harshly but that doesn’t remove the basic fact that we have worked together for a very long time”

houstonia:
I wasn't born in 1982 but with this current economic situation, I think 1982 just caught up with me. 82 baba I sight you

As this thing I dey double chance Tinubu sha. Oyegun fit get plans. Our people sey person wey Stand for center of road dey dance fit get another person wey dey play drum inside bush.

obinoral1179:
Now that will all know your age, clap for Yourself.

fulanimafia:
"Do they know that we were in the trenches together in the NADECO days?
Why can’t people who have mutual respect for each other have different opinions?
All we had was difference of opinions, yes it was expressed a bit harshly but that doesn’t remove the basic fact that we have worked together for a very long time” - OYEGUN
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We have now heard the actual reality straight from the horses mouth.
Nobody has sidelined Jagaban. From FFK to Aribasala to NL resident flatrons, all the suckers walloped by Tinubu and Buhari's 2015 hurricane which swept away their corrupt hero are now desperately trying to create an impression of disharmony between the President, Tinubu and Oyegun
I must however commend Oyegun for his matured response to Tinubu's missiles. The Jagaban is bound to accept the olive branch in no time...all's well that ends well.
I laugh and stand with PMB and Jagaban.

RZArecta:
Whether anybody likes Tinubu or not, Oyegun can't deny receiving millions of naira in bribe from Seriake Dickson to subvert APC's Bayelsa state primaries in favour of Timipre Sylva. I've never seen where someone bought a gun just to shoot himself in the foot just the way APC did I mean they had Bayelsa on a platter of gold just for that he goat Oyegun to sell out for a bowl of porridge.... Fackin hell

FriendChoice:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/212002-apc-crisis-cant-remove-pages-newspaper-oyegun-tells-tinubu.html

DIKEnaWAR:
Lol

DIKEnaWAR:


Do you know what this man just told Tinubu?

"If you think you are as powerful as you claim, come to the NWC and try to remove me as party chair".

This is coming after his meeting with Buhari who assured him to "forget that one. He thinks he can cage you like he had been doing to others"

Funny enough, Tinubu is not even a member of the APC NWC. He is just a 'National Leader'.

So much for a master strategist. Are we not really paying this men more attention than they deserve? Buhari's Presidency has succeeded in showing one thing: that many Nigerians are not as smart as we thought. The others are cowards.