National leader of the ruling All
Progressives Congress, Bolaji Ahmed Tinubu is reported to have asked the
national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and his national
working committee to resign during his visit to the party secretariat.
Tinubu, who was appointed by
President Buhari to chair the APC reconciliation committee, had visited the
party’s secretariat where he met Oyegun and others.
After the meeting, Oyegun was
seen in Kogi State where he received defecting members of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, and was also said to have unilaterally inaugurated
officials parallel to those already heading the state chapter of the party.
Following the development, Tinubu
had written to Oyegun, copied President Muhammadu Buhari, Bukola Saraki and
Yakubu Dogara, accusing the chairman of sabotaging his efforts in reconciling
aggrieved members of the party.
He specifically mentioned Kogi,
Kaduna, Kano, and Adamawa as the key states where Odigie-Oyegun is working to
frustrate his efforts in reconciling aggrieved members of the party.
Speaking with Independent on the
genesis of the current crisis between the two party stalwarts, a member of the
party’s NWC, who would not want his name mentioned, said Tinubu during the
closed door meeting he had with them at the party secretariat asked Oyegun and
the NWC to resign as a way of finding a lasting solution to the crisis rocking
the party.
The source said during Tinubu’s
visit to the party secretariat, he had asked them to resign as members of the
NWC led by Chief Oyegun but they refused and told him that it is impossible
since their tenure will end in June.
The source also said that they
later understood the former Lagos State Governor wanted to install a Caretaker
Committee to be headed by Chief Bisi Akande, thereby having his structures in
charge of the party, adding that this is the genesis of the crisis.
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