Eight governors of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, have asked the party’s national chairman,
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to resign over the current leadership crisis rocking
the National Assembly.
According to reports, the governors gave the quit notice
to Oyegun on Tuesday after accusing him of collecting bribe.
The governors
include; Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abubakar Sani
Bello (Niger), Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abubakar
Badaru (Jigawa), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), and Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), who
were at the party’s National Secretariat yesterday.
Oyegun met the governors
after he was excused at a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee
(NWC). At the end of the meeting with Oyegun, when newsmen approached the
governors for comment, they declined to speak.
They simply entered their
vehicles and left the party’s secretariat. The party’s national publicity
secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, when contacted for comments, simply said he
could not explain what happened since he was not part of the meeting.
He said,
“I am not privy to what the governors came to discuss with the national
chairman in his office. But I can assure you that they did not come to ask him
to resign.” However, another member of the NWC, who spoke to Daily Trust on
telephone after the meeting, said the governors came to see the chairman on
behalf of others in order to find a lasting solution to the crisis confronting
the party, pointing out that the party’s committee on the crisis had reached
some decisions after series of meetings.
He added that a letter would be
drafted and sent to the National Assembly to convey the party’s position. It
would be recalled that the APC deputy national publicity secretary, Mr Timi
Frank, had earlier called for the resignation Oyegun over his handling of the
National Assembly leadership election crisis.
Last Friday, Chief Odigie-Oyegun
endorsed the emergence of Senator Saraki as Senate President and Mr Yakubu
Dogara, Speaker, the House of Representatives. He held meetings with Saraki and
Dogara at his residence in Abuja on Monday.
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