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  • Updated: June 27, 2020

Buhari Operated APC's Cancer, 2023 Presidency, Bad Temper Wrecked Oshiomhole – Oyegun

Buhari Operated APC's Cancer, 2023 Presidency, Bad Temper Wr

Erstwhile Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has described President Muhammadu Buhari's intervention which led to the sack of APC's National Working Committee as fantastic, stressing that the National Executive Committee led by the President carried out a major surgery which terminated the cancer ailing the ruling party. 

He also pointed out how the quest for 2023 presidency and bad temper ruined the ousted national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and lamented that an NWC faction went as low as naming the now-deceased Abiola Ajimobi acting national chairman when the former Oyo governor was battling for his life.

Oyegun, who spoke in an interview with Saturday Sun, said, "You know the APC had become a spectacle to the entire nation, a joke. But in one fell swoop, the minute the president decided to act, I think everything is now back on course. The whole argument has set us back quite a bit because we wasted precious time and until we have our convention now, we really have only an interim body. So, energising the party is still something that will come in future. But thank God at least, we have sorted that. We had a cancer and a major operation has been performed and the patient, meaning the APC, is recovering very well.

"If you remember, a few days before that, I issued a statement that advised what specifically happened. That was the only way because the NWC was already fractured. Everybody was claiming to be chairman and what was very annoying was that one of the factions was using the name of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of blessed memory. And they knew the man’s condition and they were pushing him forward to say Ajimobi’s faction and the other faction, whereas the poor man was in the hospital, fighting for his life. I thought that was really, really base, very mean."

When asked if he agrees that the struggle to control the party by some leaders ahead of the 2023 presidential  election led to the crisis in the party, Oyegun answered,  "Yes, partially, that is so. Partially that and partially, the temperament and nature of both the former chairman (Oshiomhole) and even the NWC."

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