Oyegun ‘Not Fit’ To Be Party Chairman, Says APC Lawmaker
Chief John Oyegun, APC national chairman[/caption]
The call for the resignation of chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, has continued to heighten as a chieftain of the party Bisi Yusuff has demanded that the party’s national chairman vacates his office immediately.
Yusuff, who is the committee chairman on public account for local government of the Lagos state House of Assembly, made the call after Oyegun lost his polling unit to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the just concluded Edo state gubernatorial elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced that the APC scored 69 votes, while the PDP scored 78 votes in Oyegun’s polling unit.
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It has become a tradition for the former Edo state governor to lose his polling unit (Oredo ward 2, unit 1) to a rival since he assumed office as national chairman of the APC.
But Yusuff, who deemed the tradition very embarrassing for image of the ruling APC, said Oyegun has lost every “moral justification to remain as the national chairman and as a result he should immediately resign.
“You can imagine that this same chairman, who could not win in his polling unit, corrupted the process of choosing a candidate for the party in Ondo state.
“Sincerely, if you ask me, I can tell you that he is not fit to occupy the position,” Yusuff added.
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Recall that national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, had earlier called for the resignation of Oyegun over the infamous emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu as governorship candidate of the APC in Ondo state.
