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Reps crisis pitches Oyegun against Oshiomhole

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The leadership crisis at the House of Representatives may have been resolved, but its aftereffect is still reverberating in the Edo State chapter of the All Progressive Party (APC).

Ripples can authoritatively report that the crisis has pitched the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun on one hand, against the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole.

Both camps are now struggling to take control of the party in the state, haven taken opposing sides in the crisis that lasted in the lower federal legislature.

While Oyegun is believed to be in support of Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the House of Representative, Governor Adams Oshiomhole is in the camp Femi Gbajabiamila who lost out of the speakership, but grabbed the office of the majority leader.

It was gathered that in the battled to control the state’s chapter of the party, the governor’s camp is now calling for the removal of Anselm Ojezua, Chairman of the state APC, who is believed to enjoy the backing of the National Chairman.

Though the call for the removal of Anselm Ojezua as chairman of APC Edo state is being orchestrated by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Godwin Erhahon, it was learnt that Erhahon is acting the script of the governor who desperately wants Ojezua booted out of office for aligning with Oyegun while the leadership crisis at the National Assembly lasted.

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Contacted, the Edo State APC chairman, Ojezua dismissed the threat on his position with a wave of the hand, stating that Erhahon does not have the wherewithal to remove him from office.

Though he was quick to admit that Erhahon is enjoying the backing of some powerful people, he however said that at the appropriate time, his backers will come public.

On his part, Erhahon said he has incriminating evidence against Ojezua stressing that the Edo APC Chairman is living on borrowed times.

Several attempts by elders to the party to address the situation is yet to yield results.

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