It also insisted that Victor Giadom who claims to be the
acting chairman of the party is an impostor.
Mr Eta said this on Tuesday night at the party’s secretariat
while receiving the report of the APC committee on the just concluded Edo
governorship primary.
The seven-member committee led by the Imo State Governor,
Hope Uzodinma, announced Osagie Ize-Iyamu the winner of the party’s
governorship primaries conducted in 18 local government areas of the state on Monday.
Mr Ize-Iyamu, the favourite candidate of suspended chairman
Adams Oshiomhole, defeated two other aspirants – Pius Odubu and Osaro Obazee –
to clinch the ticket.
The primary committee’s report was presented to the NWC
members by Ajibola Bashiru, a senator who served as the secretary of the
committee.
Mr Eta, who is standing in for the hospitalised Abiola
Ajimobi, the party’s interim chairman, described the deputy national secretary,
Victor Giadom, as an impostor who has finally been suspended by a court.
“As we speak, the membership of Victor Giadom has been
suspended by a competent court of jurisdiction in Port Harcourt this afternoon.
Not only is he no longer a member of the NWC, for today his membership has been
suspended,” he said as a copy of the court judgement was made visible.
Mr Eta’s response was precipitated by a question thrown at
the NWC by journalists on a speculated virtual National Executive Council (NEC)
scheduled for Thursday by Mr Giadom.
This birthed an uproar that lasted for minutes at the
party’s NEC hall when he strongly interjected the journalist who referred to
both camps, Messrs Giadom and Eta-led NWC, as factions within the boy.
Mr Eta, mentioned the number of NWC members present and
whose support his faction enjoys, quoted the party’s constitution and dismissed
Mr Giadom’s claim to be the party’s interim chairman.
“It is not right, if you look up the meaning of faction. It
is not right for you to see 15 distinguished members of the NWC and two met
with us virtually, and still call us a faction.
“This is the National Working Committee of the APC in
Nigeria, I sit here on behalf of distinguished Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the
acting chairman of this party,” Mr Eta, who is the APC national vice-chairman
(south-south), said urging the media to investigate Mr Gaidom’s membership.
“It is important that those who interrogate us should also
internalise the content of our constitution, so when we have imposter, it is
recognisable,” he added.
He also disclosed to journalists the resolution of the NWC
members present at the meeting to acknowledge and accept the letter indicating
the lifting of Mr Oshiomhole’s suspension by its primary constituency in Ward
10 Etsako West LGA of Edo State.
Mr Oshiomhole’s suspension by the Edo APC was recently
validated by the appeal court. However, a faction of the party in his ward has
announced the lifting of the suspension while the main faction has insisted the
suspension is ongoing.
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