The Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Lawal Shuaibu, has called on the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to resign for bringing failure to the party.
Shuaibu made the call in a letter he sent to Oshiomhole on Monday, noting that he lacked the composure to lead the APC.
Shuaibu said the APC under Oshiomhole had become badly fractured in virtually every constituency in the country and was fast losing the goodwill it enjoyed before Oshiomhole’s emergence.
In the letter titled “APC: Its fortunes versus misfortunes, time to act,” Shuaibu accused Oshiomhole of running the party like his private fiefdom without recourse to party’s organs and structures.
He stated, “It is expected that for every decision credited to the party, it should be the result of a meeting where resolutions are passed by the working committee.
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“It is also expected that policies by the party are always alI-inclusive and never one-sided and to cap it up, no unilateral decisions should be made to represent the opinion of the National Working Committee, the National Executive Committee or even the least, the National Caucus. The national chairman cannot assume the powers of the National Working Committee.
“The last congresses in states, unfortunately, represented a complete lack of knowledge, let alone of experience on how due process in political electoral process is adhered to.
“The National Working Committee is saddled with the responsibility of recommending guidelines for every electoral process and appointing committees that will embark on conducting primary elections for every constituency and submit report and thereafter an appeal committee will attend to complaints and petitions and also submit its report to the NWC.
“The National Working Committee is then expected to perform the duty of the final adjudicatory body on each electoral matter and from there you have the final list of candidates.
“The national chairman cannot, in any circumstances be the chairman of any committee, be it screening committee or any other committee contrary to what you did. The chairman presides over the meetings of the National Working Committee in which each matter disposed of by any appeal committee is examined and decision reached.
“If the national chairman should chair any of these committees, what if there is a complaint about his own conduct, who do you send your petition to? He cannot be a judge in his own matter!”
Continuing, he said, “Please don’t get me wrong, do not think I am saying these about your conduct as the chairman because I want to be chairman. I don’t want to be the national chairman, because I cannot be, even if I want to, for as long as President Muhammadu Buhari is in office, having come from the same North-West geo-political zone with me I cannot.
“In advanced democracies, people who fail to add value or build over and above what they meet on assumption of duty show some civilised examples, they honourably bow out.
“In that connection, therefore, I want to advise you to take the path of honour, to step aside and allow the party to embark on the onerous task of reconstruction and rehabilitation in those states it was weakened by the effect of manner the last primary elections were conducted or even the task of recreating the party where it is on the path of extinction, arising from the loss of a sitting APC government, for example in Zamfara State, where you directly personally created the problem leading to the painful complete loss of the APC’s electoral fortunes, from up to down.
“All these are uncontestable facts. You cannot exonerate yourself from blame on what happened to the APC in Zamfara State, thereby destroying the hopes and aspirations of 534,541 APC members and supporters, including my good self!
“l have nothing personal, except that I love this party and cannot keep quiet seeing it being brutally murdered!”