The Delta State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) today warned the Party former national Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun to stay off the State Chapter’s leadership affairs.
This was contained in a statement signed and released to the press by the Delta APC Publicity Secretary, O. S. Imonina, Esq.
The Delta APC Publicity Secretary Press Release alleged that Oyegun had concluded plans to nominate leaders for the Party in Delta State; thereby plunging the Party in the State into another round of crisis. Adding that, it should be noted that it was this same Chief Oyegun who as the national Chairman, created the numerous crises that have being bedevilling the Party, and resulted in the Party experiencing tremendous losses at the 2019 general Elections.
Below is the full Press Statement
All Progressives Congress APC
Delta State,
State Secretariat
Plot 4 Anwai/Illah Road, GRA Phase 1, Asaba
OYEGUN SHOULD LEAVE DELTA STATE APC ALONE
It has come to the attention of the All Progressives Congress Delta State, that the erstwhile national Chairman of our great Party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun had concluded plans to nominate leaders for the Party in Delta State; thereby plunging the Party in the State into another round of crisis. It should be noted that it was this same Chief Oyegun who as the national Chairman, created the numerous crises that have being bedevilling the Party, and resulted in the Party experiencing tremendous losses at the 2019 general elections.
It is therefore quite disheartening that the said Chief Oyegun is now at the forefront of plunging the Party in the State into another round of turmoil at a time the Party is just coming out of such parochial battles. It is clear that this present action of the former national Chairman will spell doom for the Party and we wonder what he stands to gain from his machiavellian tactics of tearing the Party apart in Delta State.
The point must be emphasized that the constitution of our great Party is very clear on who is in charge of the affairs of the Party in the State. In line with the Party’s Constitution, it is an incontestable fact that the State Chairman in the person of Prophet Jones Ode Erue is in charge.
As a former national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun should be aware that there is no constitutional provisions which give him the powers to nominate and/or appoint leaders of the Party from Delta State. Perhaps, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun is still clinging to and maybe suffering from the vestiges of lost power as a former national Chairman.
The Party in the State wants to sound it loud and clear, that Chief John Odigie-Oyegun should leave Delta State APC alone and resolve the numerous challenges facing his home State of Edo where he has become a persona-non- grata due to his perchants for creating needless problems, and as proverbial saying goes, “he should remove the log in his eyes before looking at the speck in another person’s eyes”. He should leave Delta APC to resolve whatever differences there is, and not to bring destruction to the Party in the guise of making peace.
We are therefore calling on the national leadership of our great Party to call Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to order and to desist from his present act of shenanigans.
O.S. Imonina, Esq.
Publicity Secretary
APC Delta State.
15th April, 2021.