Governor Akeredolu blasts Oshiomhole over APC primaries, speaks on supporting Buhari in 2019

Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has reacted to allegations that he and some governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are plotting to remove the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

While denying any involvement in any attempt to remove Oshiomhole, Akeredolu, however, accused Oshiomhole of exhibiting incompetence in the handling of the party’s recently concluded primaries across the country.

In a statement by his Senior Special Adviser on Special Duties and Strategy, Doyin Odebowale, the Governor said APC primaries exposed Oshiomhole’s incompetence.

He described the exercise as a “political charade” and a revelation of “a shocking proclivity towards banditry and impunity.”

“The governor had expressed preference for someone else during the contest for the office of the Chairman of the party.

“He did not hide his opposition to Mr Oshiomole’s aspiration for the simple reason that the leadership of a party, especially the one just emerging from a merger, should distance itself from egregious and inherently destructive narcissism.

“Recent events seem to justify this position as prescient. Only sycophants will fail to see the obvious. Mr President would not have expressed worries over the crises in the Party if everything had gone on smoothly.

“The handlers of the mob strive in vain to set the President against certain government functionaries considered antagonistic to their pernicious scheme for dominance.

“Their devious plot to outsmart those perceived as opposing their expansionist tendency compelled them to take desperate measures. Anyone endowed with an attitude of sobriety should have seen the need for calm.

“Rather than retrace their steps and display genuine contrition, their desperation pushes them to embrace measures capable of not only hurting the Party, but, regrettably, the President, whom they pretend to love so much.

“Those who collected varying and humongous amounts as fees from aspirants during the last grandiose charade called primaries and submitted names dictated to them by a cabal, notorious for capturing political power for unbridled pillage, should be bold to explain their real motives to the people. They should be honest enough to deal with the issues,” the statement read.