Osita Okechukwu, an aggrieved aspirant for Enugu West Senatorial District ticket, said on Thursday, November 8, 2018, that Oshiomhole seemed to have run away from duty to evade the substitution window meant to redress the grievances of the casualties of his alleged inactions.
Okechukwu who is the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, had addressed journalists on Thursday in Abuja where he once again called on the APC national chairman to resign.
Okechukwu, who protested against the primary held in Enugu State, said Oshiomhole’s alleged undue substitution of candidates’ were already in the public domain.
Recall The Trent earlier reported that Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, suddenly left the country early on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, in the midst of the furore caused by his interrogation by the Department of State Services, DSS, on Sunday and Monday, Daily Trust learnt from top party sources last night.
It was also also learnt that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State secured bail for Oshiomhole from DSS after he underwent nine hours of interrogation on Sunday and for several hours again on Monday.
The interrogation, The Trent gathered, was prompted by numerous petitions sent to DSS, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Presidency arising from APC’s primary elections, which led to bitter acrimony in several states with allegations of bribery and manipulation.
Most of the petitions, sources said, were from Imo, Ogun, Niger and Zamfara states. There were also petitions from Kaduna, Bauchi, Adamawa, Delta and Cross River states.
According to informed sources within the APC hierarchy, the road to the current implosion started when Oshiomhole marginalized the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, usurped its functions, relocated from the party’s national headquarters to his personal campaign secretariat at Asokoro and thereafter run the primaries with the cooperation of only four NWC members.
The NWC members that cooperated closely with the chairman, It was learnt, are Deputy National Chairman (South) Niyi Adebayo, National Auditor George Moghalu and National Organizing Secretary Emma Ibediro.
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