{"id":11040,"date":"2019-06-03T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2019-06-03T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:48:21","slug":"oshiomhole-cant-run-apc-says-partys-former-chairman-oyegun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-cant-run-apc-says-partys-former-chairman-oyegun","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole can\u2019t run APC, says party\u2019s former chairman, Oyegun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has hit hard on Adams Oshiomhole, accusing him of being incapable of running the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, succeeded Mr Odigie-Oyegun as the APC national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The APC\u2019s political fortune has dwindled across the country since the last general elections, even though the party\u2019s flag bearer, incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari won re-election.<\/p>\n<p>A call for Mr Oshiomhole\u2019s resignation a few days ago by the APC deputy national chairman (North), Lawal Shuaibu, prompted a reaction from the state chairmen of APC in the South-South region who blamed the party\u2019s troubles on its former chairman, Mr Odigie-Oyegun.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Odigie-Oyegun fired back at the APC national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOshiomhole fails because he lacks the temperament that is required to run a political party. He lacks the capacity to manage the different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party,\u201d The Punch newspaper quoted Mr Odigie-Oyegun to have said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe acts in direct opposite of decisions taken by NWC. No minutes of NWC meetings which, in any event, take place outside the party secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you not have crises in states with the confusion that Oshiomhole created when he gave the states freedom to choose their methods of choosing candidates for elections?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the crisis in states arose out of sheer incapacity on the part of the current chairman. How does this Oshiomhole\u2019s incapacity become traps by Oyegun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odigie-Oyegun, according to the report, said many party men were disappointed because of the unfairness and injustice meted to them during the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Oshiomhole) engages his mouth before engaging his mind, so he offends party members.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"beacon_5cf51662efa256e054a7737a3f4f041e\"><\/div>\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7650359907253916\" data-ad-slot=\"9655271163\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_3_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_3_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOnly a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools. Indeed Oshiomhole is degrading and demarketing the party. Rather than seek to bring more people on board, he is chasing people out of the party with his agbero style of engagement,\u201d Mr Odigie-Oyegun said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n<div class=\"sd-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has hit hard on Adams Oshiomhole, accusing him of being incapable of running the APC. Mr Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, succeeded Mr Odigie-Oyegun as the APC national chairman. The APC\u2019s political fortune has dwindled across the country since the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,694,376,173],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-edo-state","tag-oshiomhole","tag-parties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oshiomhole can\u2019t run APC, says party\u2019s former chairman, Oyegun - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-cant-run-apc-says-partys-former-chairman-oyegun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oshiomhole can\u2019t run APC, says party\u2019s former chairman, Oyegun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has hit hard on Adams Oshiomhole, accusing him of being incapable of running the APC. 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