Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Minister of
Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi; Minister of State for Labour and Employment,
Festus Keyamo; former Edo state governor Oserheimen Osunbor; immediate past Director
General of Nigerian Maritime Safety Administration Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku
Peterside and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the South
South, have insisted on the removal of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National
Chairman of the party.
The South South leaders reached the resolution to replace
Oshiomhole with the Acting National Secretary of the party, Victor Giadom in
acting capacity.
Obaseki, Amaechi and the others maintained that the party’s
National Executive Committee, NEC, scheduled for next week Tuesday, must hold.
In the meeting, which had the presence of other South South
APC leaders such as Senator Ndoma Egba, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs,
Usani Usani; factional chairman of Edo state chapter Anselm Ojezua; Senator
Domingo Obende, Senator James Akpan Udoedege; Sam Sam Jaja, former TUC
President, Peter Esele among others, they called on all members of the party
from the geographical zone to attend the meeting.
According to them, the NEC is the only democratic instrument
of the party authorized to do so by its constitution.
They took the decisions in Abuja, at Edo State Governor’s
Lodge in Asokoro.
This is despite the call by the National vice chairman,
South South, Hillard Eta for the South South APC leaders to boycott the
meeting.
Governor Obaseki read out a communique released at the end
of the meeting. It said seven ministers, serving National Assembly members,
former ministers, former governors, former NASS members, and all zonal and
state executive members of the party attended the zonal caucus meeting.
The communique noted in part, “At the meeting, the leaders
of the zone deliberated extensively on the situation in the party and at the
end of the meeting, they adopted the following resolutions:
“That as a party, we commend our brother, the Acting
Chairman of the APC, Victor Giadom, for rising to the occasion by providing
leadership for the party in this trying times.
“That we fully support the convening of the National
Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday March 17th, as the NEC is the only
recognised organ under the constitution of our party to resolve the APC crisis.
“That we insist that the party should respect the current
zoning arrangement by retaining the chairmanship of our great party in the
South-South zone even in an acting capacity.
“We resolved that the most senior officer of the party from
the zone, being the National Acting Secretary, Chief Victor Giadom, should be
confirmed Acting National Chairman for the time-being.
“We urged all our brothers and sisters from the zone to
fully embrace the NEC meeting and not boycott the emergency NEC meeting, which
has been slated for Tuesday March 17th. Because boycott in a democratic
environment is always counterproductive.”
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