Suspended National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says court-endorsed Acting National Chairman, Victor Giadom must allow commonsense to prevail over his ambition.
He accused the erstwhile Deputy National Secretary of attempting to destroy the party like his group did in his home state of Rivers.
Recall that the APC was barred from presenting candidates for the 2019 general election following a messy disagreement between a group led by Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Magnus Abe.
Giadom is a known protégé of Amaechi.
Oshiomhole added that Giadom was no longer a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
He further explained that even if he were still a member, it would be impossible for a Deputy National Secretary to act in place of an absent National Chairman when there were more high-ranking officials.
According to Vanguard, the suspended party boss disclosed this in an online television interview.
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Oshiomhole said, “My advice to my brother (Giadom) is about common sense. In the absence of the Chairman, there is nothing in our rules, and the courts can only interpret the rules of the party and the Constitution of Nigeria. I mean it serves to common sense that if the Chairman is absent, it should be the deputy. In the absence of the deputy, it is the vice chairman. How does the deputy secretary come in?
“As we speak, we have a Secretary sitting in the office working late hours to ensure that the secretariat functions. I think that my brother, Victor Giadom wants to take our party to the root of Rivers state where they created so much problems that, as we speak today, in Rivers, we have crisis.
“My plea to them is that they should put God first and put our national party interest second and out our democracy deep in their hearts and not try to use externalities to destabilize our party the way it has been destabilized in Rivers state. How can a deputy National Secretary, assuming he was still one, claim to be chairman?”,