APC Chieftains Decry Oshiomhole’s Alleged Reign Of Impunity

NO fewer than 12 founding members of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) have cried out to the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to halt alleged reign of impunity by the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

In an open letter, Mr. Salihu Mustapha, on behalf of the group, argued that the onus was on Tinubu to insist on politics that would be democratic, all- inclusive, and anchored on decency and respect for party members and the rule of law. Mustapha, who was deputy national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change ( CPC), particularly accused Oshiomhole of arrogating the powers of the national working committee ( NWC) and the national executive committee ( NEC) to himself, all in a bid to achieve selfish agenda.

They referred to the ongoing processes leading to the Edo State governorship primary, to buttress their claims. Reminding Tinubu of how he fought series of injustices and abuse of power over the years, they insisted his intervention is needed to save the party from imminent collapse, ahead 2023.

They said: “Can there be reconciliation in an atmosphere of impunity, perpetrated by APC’S National Chairman, which could not have been possible without tacit greenlight from the National leader himself?

“We find it bewildering that, just within a space of one month, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole serially and violently violated APC Constitution and the silence of Asiwaju, the National Leader, is disconcerting.

“Should we now forget about constitutionalism and due process in APC’S affairs? First, Adams Oshiomhole has constituted himself into a one- man National Working Committee. It is distasteful and undemocratic that Adams Oshiomhole has subordinated the entire NWC to his whims and caprices, such that the team spirit and canon of collective responsibility envisaged by APC Constitution are no longer there…”