Former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has said he has no plans to return as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.
Oshiomhole stated this in a statement titled ‘Leave Oshiomhole out of APC leadership debate’ and signed by his senior media aide, Victor Oshoke, on Wednesday,
This statement was made following the report that the former APC chairman was returning to lead the party again.
The tenure of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) spearheaded by Oshiomhole was terminated by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in June 2020 following a protracted leadership crisis.
As a result, NEC appointed Mai Mala Buni, Yobe State Governor to guide a caretaker committee of the party.
Oshioke classified the report that Oshiomhole has plans to return as the party’s chairman as a “nonsensical suggestion”.
He said, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), who is now a member of the APC and self-styled aide of Minister of Transportation, Chief Rotimi Amaechi,” he said.
“In the said statement widely reported in the media, Chief Eze was quoted as saying that Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), Hon. Minister of State for Labour and Employment, and others were plotting to bring back Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the APC.
“Ordinarily we would have ignored this nonsensical suggestion. However, it is pertinent to set the records straight and put to rest this ridiculous falsehood being marketed by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze.
“Keyamo also offered legal advice on the legality of the NEC that was convened for the dissolution of the Oshiomhole led National Working Committee of APC and emergence of the Governor Mai-Mala Buni led Caretaker Committee.
“It is therefore frivolous for any right-thinking person to assume that Mr. Keyamo who actively supported the removal of the National chairman elected by over 6, 500 party delegates from across the 36 states and the FCT, because 8 out of 27 Ward executive members purportedly suspended a national party chairman, would now plot to bring the same Oshiomhole back to the office.”