Oshiomhole engages his mouth before engaging his head – Oyegun

Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has described his successor and current chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, as a man who talks, before he thinks.

Oyegun, while exonerating himself from the leadership crisis currently brewing in the party, said Oshiomhole lacked the leadership capacity to move the party forward.

“Oshiomhole fails because he lacks the temperament required to run a political party.

“He lacks the capacity to manage different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party.

“He engages his mouth before engaging his mind, so he offends party members, so how does that constitute traps by Oyegun,” Odigie-Oyegun wondered.

Oyegun in a statement signed by his special assistant on public affairs, Chief Ray Morphy, said he could not be held responsible for the crisis in the party as recently alleged by six South-South APC state chairmen.

The chairmen had attributed the current challenges facing the party as a “landmine” left behind by Odigie-Oyegun’s administration.

He recalled that already, the APC deputy national chairman (North) had confirmed that Oshiomhole runs the party without recourse to its National Working Committee (NWC) and acts in direct opposite to its decisions.

The former chairman noted that many party men were against Oshiomhole because of unfair treatment and injustice meted on them during the party’s last primaries ahead of the 2019 general elections.

“Only a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools, indeed Oshiomhole is degrading and de-marketing the party, rather than seek to bring more people on board, he is chasing people out of the party with his agbero style of engagement,” Oyegun impugned.

Sen. Lawal Shuaibu, APC deputy national chairman, North, had recently called on Oshiomhole to resign for allegedly failing to add value to the party since his election.

Shuaibu, in a six-page letter dated May 27, 2019 and addressed to Oshiomhole, accused him of incompetence, high handedness and immaturity in his handling of the party’s affairs.

He noted that the APC had lost control of seven states under Oshiomhole. (RS with NAN report)