APC Crisis | Oyegun slams Tinubu, Says Ondo Guber Primaries irreversible

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Con­gress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has declared that the just concluded gover­norship primary in Ondo State cannot be reversed by the party.

With his position, Odigie-Oyegun has overruled the par­ty’s National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu’s demand that the primary be cancelled.

Odigie-Oyegun, who said that Tinubu was too harsh on him by demanding his resigna­tion because of the controversy trailing the election, denied that there was a rift between them.

Tinubu, whose alleged pre­ferred candidate lost the par­ty election in the state, had accused Odigie-Oyegun of un­dermining the APC for refus­ing to uphold the decision of the appeal committee that recom­mended a rerun.

Speaking to State House correspondents after he held a closed-door meeting with Presi­dent Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, Odigie-Oyegun said he had no reason to quit as a APC chair­man because there will be no re­versal of the result of the Ondo primary poll.

He said that “it is only the Independent National Elector­al Commission (INEC) that can make reverse the Ondo prima­ry,” adding that “what happened is in the report of the chairman of the primaries’ committee.”

The APC chairman pointed out that the tenure or resigna­tion of the party’s chairman is not determined on the pages of newspapers.

He stressed that what hap­pened between him and Tinubu was just divergence of opinions, which is why he considered the comments of the latter as too harsh for the situation.

Asked if he has anything to do with the protest by some youths against Tinubu at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, Od­igie-Oyegun denied it and re­called his long-standing polit­ical alliance with Tinubu since the days of the National Dem­ocratic Coalition (NADECO) which fought against the late Gen Sani Abacha military junta.