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Shouting match ensued yesterday between the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomole , and the National Vice Chairman (North-East) of the party, Mustapha salihu, while in a National Working Committee meeting at the National Secretariat.
Salihu who was reported to have stormed out of the meeting after a lot of shouting and banging of tables, latter allege to newsmen that the noise was over an attempt by the party chairman to impose a former member of the presidential campaign council, Waziri Bulama, as National Secretary of the party.
According to him, the decision did not follow due process and endorsement of the Zonal Executive Committee.
Salihu also said that Oshiomhole had ceased to be the national chairman of the party because of a court order upholding his suspension by his Iyamho ward in Edo State.
“Unless I see the reversal of the court order suspending Oshiomhole as the APC National Chairman, I won’t allow him to sit here as the national chairman.
“This is an illegality, the party has set a precedent. When Babachir Lawal left to become the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, I replaced him from Adamawa. When Alhaji Lai Mohammed left his post as the National Publicity Secretary to the party to become a minister, Bolaji Abdullahi from Kwara replaced him.
“He (Oshiomhole) keeps dropping names whenever he wants to perpetuate illegality. He doesn’t have the right to call for nomination.”
Meanwhile, the National Legal Adviser of the party, Babatunde Ogala, said he was not aware of any order validating Oshiomhole’s suspension.
Explaining how Bulama emerged, Ogala told newsmen that he was the one who moved the motion at the meeting for his appointment as acting National Secretary pending the party’s convention.
He also denied knowledge of any shouting match at the meeting.
Salihu vowed to pursue the implementation of the court order upholding Oshiomhole’s suspension.
He said he would write to the Independent National Electoral Commission and Department of State Services not to recognise Oshiomhole as national chairman.
“I have not seen any court order vacating that subsisting court order. So, I am not recognising him as national chairman, he doesn’t have the right to call any meeting.”
