Politics
Oyegun, others blame Oshiomhole for Edo Assembly crisis
A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and some chieftains of the party in Edo State have blamed the national Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, for the recent crisis in the state House of Assembly.
It would be recalled that nine of the 24-member assembly had met to elect a speaker for the assembly, a development that led to crisis in the state.
Speaking on the crisis at a peace meeting on Friday in Benin, Odigie-Oyegun said: “This is an unfortunate situation and it only originates from the breakdown of god-fatherism.”
According to him, the crisis should send a strong message to those he described as “combatants” in the party.
“We saw this happening, we knew it could happen, but, I’m surprised it could happen with this kind of degree of intensity. But, like I told you, god-fatherism does not work with a thinking people who are so diverse.
“Just to remind the combined combatants that if they continue in the path they have set for themselves, they stand the danger of making the APC the opposition party in the state because the division in the party is very deep and if they don’t reconcile quickly, then I can bet them now, that they will lose the state. So, let them not destroy the party and the state because nobody will benefit from it, if that happens, everybody will lose. That’s my only message to them,” he added.
Another chieftain of the party, Charles Idahosa, also blamed Oshiomhole, calling for his resignation as the national chairman of the party.
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According to Idahosa, the silence of the ex-governor in the face of the crisis orchestrated by those who claimed to be Oshiomhole group (Edo Peoples Movement) meant consent.
He alleged that some of the youths causing mayhem in the state were Oshiomhole’s boys.
Oyegun, a former governor of the state, endorsed the inauguration of the 7th Assembly and the emergence of its leadership, paying tribute to Governor Obaseki for overriding the interest of those he describes as “meddlesome godfathers.”
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