‘Suspension of Oshiomhole, Obaseki, Unknown to South-south APC

Peace appears to be in the horizon for the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the South-south zonal chapter of the party has declared that the purported suspension of some members of the party were not binding on them.

National Vice Chairman Southsouth of the APC, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, who commented on the crisis yesterday while speaking to journalists said as far as the zone was concerned, no member of the APC had been suspended.

According to Eta, the purported suspension of some big time politician and others by the warring factions were unconstitutional, null, void, and of no effect.

Eta said the suspension of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; the state deputy governor, Mr. Philip Shaibu; the state secretary to the state government, Osarodion Ogie, the state party chairman, Anslem Ojezua; the National Chairman of the party, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, and other members of his faction is illegal, and strange to the APC in the zone.

The zonal vice chairman said the actions taken by both factions violates the provisions of the constitution of the party on imposition of sanctions on alleged airing members.

He said the South-south zone of the party would soon convene an emergency meeting to ensure that the crisis bedeviling the party in Edo State is resolved.

“We intend to convene an emergency Zonal executive committee meeting to look into the whole matter. Having said so, I am not in a position to take sides in the matter in Edo state. But, let me say I have read and seen in TV and newspapers as well as in the social media the various sanctions and suspensions starting from the national chairman, who was said to have been ,suspended, to the governor, his deputy , the secretary to government, the chairman of the and even the state secretary of the party.

“My take on this is that none of those processes lived to the expectations of the constitution of the party. So, as for me as an individual they are all null and void,” he said.

Continuing Eta said, “The truth of the matter is that political parties are made up of human beings. There are constitutional processes, and step that you take before you can sanction people.