Alhaji Shittu
Former Governor of old Sokoto State, Mallam Yahaya Abdulkarim, and immediate past Communications Minister, Adebayo Shittu have joined Deputy National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Sen. Lawal Shu’ibu, in calling on the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiohmole to step down.
Shittu stated this on Thursday in Abuja, while speaking with newsmen in reaction to a six page letter written by the APC Deputy National Chairman North, Sen. Lawal Shuaibu to Oshiomhole, calling for his resignation.
Abdulkarim an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Sokoto that Oshiomhole has demonstrated poor performance since taking over which reduced the party’s capabilities and if he does not quit, the party would be dead by 2023.
“I am 100 per cent in support of the call for Oshiomhole to step down for the party to have good leadership that will lead to its progress. The party’s national chairman is supposed to lead the party to capture more states, give it right leadership and direction. The essence of politics and political party is to win elections, if it fails then it’s not a party. Loosing control in six states is too much blow for members to bear. If Oshiohmole does not quit, the APC will be dead by 2023,” Abdulkarim said.
Shuaibu had in the letter on Tuesday, called on Oshiomhole to resign for allegedly failing to add value to the APC since his election as its national chairman.
He accused Oshiomole of incompetence, high handedness and immaturity in his handling affairs of the party.
According to Shuaibu, Oshiomhole lacked the capacity and necessary composure to lead the party.
He noted that the respect and sympathy the APC used to enjoy among its members and sympathisers before Oshiomhole emerged as its Chairman had been eroded.
“I endorse Oshiomole’s resignation; the truth is that with Oshiomhole, this party will go down by the time President Muhammadu Buhari finishes his second term in office.
“Oshiomhole is full of himself and he has an ego problem and wants to dominate every environment, and democracy is not like that,”Shittu said.
He added that most of the party’s chieftains who thought of its future, continuity and relevance after the president’s second term in office, did not want Oshiomhole to remain as the party’s chairman.
He stressed that because such party chieftains were concerned about the party’s future, they would do everything possible to ensure that Oshiomole resigned.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the former minister was disqualified by the Oshiomhole-led APC National Working Committee (NWC) to contest the party’s governorship ticket in Oyo State.
The APC National Legal Adviser, Mr Babatunde Ogala, had earlier accused Oshiomhole of usurping his functions as the party’s Legal Adviser. NAN
