OSHIOMHOLE: VON DG says he’s running, PDP urges DSS, Interpol to track him down

Embattled national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been asked to resign his position and stop running away.

A chieftain of the APC and director-general of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, gave the advice, even as he also urged the Department of State Service (DSS) to probe Oshiomhole’s call logs for the period of the party’s primary elections.

Meanwhile, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have also called on the DSS, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and INTERPOL to track Oshiomhole down.
Oshiomhole was said to have bolted out of the country soon after his alleged interrogation by the DSS over his roles in the primaries of the ruling party that were marred by myriad of controversies.

The PDP, who have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of concealing and making efforts to frustrate Oshiomhole’s alleged fraud, is alleging that Oshiomhole’s quick-travel out the country, was part of APC and Buhari’s design to shield him.

APC has since denied knowledge of its chairman being interrogated by the DSS.

But in his response on the Oshiomhole travails on Thursday in Abuja, Okechukwu, an APC chieftain from Enugu State, said at a media briefing that recent disclosures about DSS’ recent questioning of Oshiomhole over allegations of financial impropriety were enough reasons for him to resign.

Okechukwu who tipped the DSS on how to tract the APC chairman’s alleged bribe taking during the party’s recent primaries, also stated: “Penultimate week, I joined the league of APC moral leaders, faithful and men of good conscience to call on Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, to honourably resign forthwith as the chairmanship of our great party. In his usual narcissistic disposition, he refused.

“As the Oshiohmole Must Go wave raged, the Department of State Services got wind of it. They interrogated him and I patiently waited to read from Comrade Oshiomhole and his spin doctors over his tango with the DSS; in the social or main stream media, neither rebuttal nor denial came from them.

“I, therefore, once again stridently call on Comrade Oshiomhole to instead of pontification, grandstanding and running away from the country, do the needful by honourably resigning the chairmanship of our great party,” he said.

According to the VON DG, it appears that the APC national chairman was running away from duty to escape the substitution window, meant to redress the grievances of party members who fail victims of his “causalities of his nepotism.”

Further arguing that the APC and the President would be the better for it if Oshiomhole resigns, to allow the party to go into the 2019 election season with its credibility intact, he added, “One would not bother you with Oshiomhole’s malfeasance as his nepotism, undue substitution of candidates and cash-and-carry primaries are on the public domain.

“One, once more, challenges the DSS to scroll the phone-log of Comrade and his nepotic court of cronies. I also urge the EFCC to join in this probe and I am sure it will expose how low the party has sunk under this chairman.”

PDP which reacted to Oshiomhole travelling out of the country on the heels of a probe into an alleged fraud insisted in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, that President Buhari was shielding Oshiomhole from prosecution for fear that his investigation would implicate certain interests at the Presidency and the APC.

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“It is ludicrous that the APC, in its lying proclivities, believes that by dismissing Oshiomhole’s arrest as a rumour and aiding him to momentarily flee the country, it would succeed in getting him off the DSS hook as well as sweeping the matter out of public discourse with its famished broom.

“No! Nigerians are already aware that Oshiomhole has not denied his investigation including his reported confession that the Presidency was in the know of all his actions.

“The PDP had always cautioned Adams Oshiomhole of his unbridled arrogance, lust for power and alleged embezzlement of public funds for which he must surely have his day in the hands of the law.

“The PDP therefore demands that the APC and the Buhari Presidency must immediately produce Adams Oshiomhole to face investigation and prosecution in our courts,” the PDP said.

Meanwhile, it was learnt from monitored reports that Oshiomhole may soon return to the DSS for further interrogation anytime he returns to the country.

This was as the director-general of the DSS, Mr Yusufi Bichi, is said to have informed President Buhari of the desire of the agency to further probe Oshiomhole over allegations levelled against him by some aggrieved members of the party and have got Buhari’s nod for the move.

By Ebere Ndukwu.…

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