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My role in tenure extension for Oyegun, others – Lagos APC Chair

 

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Henry Ajomale, has said he was helpless at the decision of the Forum of APC State Chairmen to support the extension of the tenure of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
Ahead of the National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, the Forum of APC State Chairmen met a day earlier and “unanimously resolved” to propose a two-year tenure elongation for the NWC headed by the National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun.
The Odigie-Oyegun-led NWC eventually got the nod at the NEC meeting to retain their positions for another 12 months after the expiration of their tenure in June.
Speaking to Premium Times on his return from Abuja, yesterday, Ajomale said the endorsement by the party chairmen was for constituted organs of the party at the local, state, and national levels.
“We endorsed the entire executives from the ward level to the national, so we did not single out anybody.”
Eye brows had been raised after reports emerged that Mr. Ajomale was a party to a decision that retained Oyegun at the helm of affairs despite a persistent push for his removal by his benefactor, Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the party.
Last week, Tinubu accused the party’s national chairman of sabotaging his efforts at reconciling warring factions within the party, an assignment handed to him by President Muhammadu Buhari.
On Tuesday, the Nigerian Tribune reported sighting a hard copy of the communique at the end of the APC State Chairmen’s meeting in which 31 chairmen, including Mr. Ajomale, signed and which culminated in Oyegun’s tenure extension.
But Ajomale claimed he was not aware of Tinubu’s position on the party’s national chairman, adding that his opposition to the proposal would not have made any difference.

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