While Tinubu struggles to resolve APC crises, pro-Buhari protesters block party hq, demand Oyegun’s exit

A group calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to seek reelection, on Thursday stormed Abuja in their hundreds.

However, in what could be described as, against the run of play, the protesters besieged the national headquarters of the ruling APC located on Blantyre demanding the sack of the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

The over 100 protesters displayed placards with various anti-Oyegun slogans like ‘Oyegun is a threat to Buhari’s reelection’, ‘Oyegun must resign now’, ‘Oyegun is dividing APC’, ‘Oyegun must go!!!, ‘Oyegun is an obstacle to PMB’s reelection” among many others.

However, the protesters did not find the atmosphere easy as they were prevented from accessing the main office building by a detachment of police and other security personnel guarding the secretariat.

It could not be ascertained as at press time whether Chief Oyegun was in the party’s secretariat or not. But the protests and picketing was still ongoing at press time.

This development may be described as an unexpected turn of events as it is happening just a day after the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has been mandated by the president to coordinate the reconciliation of aggrieved members across the country began his difficult assignment by meeting with the national chairman and other members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

The February 14, meeting between Tinubu and members of the APC NWC at the party headquarters Abuja, was said to have been a “fruitful and encouraging” one by many of the party members and supporters.

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It would also be recalled that on the heels of the party primaries in Ondo State, which produces Rotimi Akeredolu, Tinubu himself had also called for the resignation of Oyegun.

Following the Thursday event in Abuja, some political watchers now argue that the reconciliation committee of Asiwaju Tinubu, now has a herculean task ahead.

The committee will have to device a means to placate the protesters who have vowed to sustain the “Oyegun must go” protest across the six geopolitical zones.

The protesters were led by one Alhaji Toyin Raheem, a chieftain of the ruling APC from the South-West.

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