All Progressives Congress (APC) powerbrokers especially the governors who are the major stakeholders will determine
the party’s new national chairman, according to a report.
Reliable sources close to party stakeholders said the
governors had agreed to work together and reach a consensus on who would pilot
the affairs of the party.
One of the governors, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said, “It was a tough decision to sack the NWC led by Oshiomhole. Some
governors owe their coming to office to him but some of us believe that we had
to take over the party and exert our authority before the party would be
finally hijacked by an individual.
“We couldn’t sit by and allow the ambition of a few persons
to destabilise the party we all suffered to build. The chairman was unilaterally
taking decisions on sensitive issues with a few individuals, even without
carrying the President along.
“We could not wait till 2023 before taking a decision.
Waiting for long would spell doom for us and the party.”
The source added that the caretaker committee members had
been saddled with the responsibility of taking a decision on the zoning formula
to be adopted in allocating offices among the six geo-political zones,
including whether the next national chairman would still come from the South-South.
Newsmen learnt that while some members of the party would
prefer the continuation of the old zoning formula, others had been advocating
adjustment.
The source added, “When Chief John Odigie-Oyegun was removed
as the national chairman, they brought Oshiomhole from Edo State. But when
Otunba Niyi Adebayo from Ekiti State was appointed as a minister, those who
want to control the party by force argued that the position of the National
Vice Chairman, South, was zoned to the entire South-West and unilaterally
appointed the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi from Oyo State. Is that fair? They
think we don’t know what we are doing?”
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