Oyegun Returns, Says APC NEC Meeting Holds Next Week

Andrew Essien
After embarking on a 10 day break that generated speculation of an impending exit, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, returned to work at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, yesterday.

Speaking to journalists at the secretariat, Oyegun, clad in a white kaftan and looking well rested also added that the National Executive Committee (NEC), Board of Trustees (BoT) and caucus meetings slated for next week would still hold as scheduled.

Oyegun said: “I’m glad to be back. I told you I was going on a break because I needed it. I’ve had a good break, I’ve had a bit of rest and I’m back to the office.

“The scheduled meetings of the party will run as planned, the caucus on the 21st, the BoT on the 22nd and NEC on the 24th. Everything will go as planned.”

When asked on the arrangements to fill vacant positions in the National Working Committee (NWC) especially the position of national publicity secretary, he said that arrangements had been completed and necessary congresses would be held to nominate a replacement.

“I think arrangements have been completed to the necessary congresses to nominate the spokesperson. I think that should be done very shortly. In fact the issue is getting somebody that can be as close as possible to the outstanding performance of the present minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.

“I think that has been the issue. As a matter of fact if it means making adjustments somebody who is good is priority number one and you can make adjustments subsequently,” Oyegun stated.

 ‘There Is Genocide Against APC Members In Rivers’

Acting national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Segun Oni, has said the rate at which people, especially members and supporters of the party are being killed in Rivers State indicates that there is ongoing genocide against APC members in the state.

Oni disclosed this in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital yesterday when he led members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC to communities where supporters of the party and other people were murdered.

Members of the NWC, who accompanied Ooni on the visit included the national women leader, Mrs. Tijani Ramani, national youth leader, Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim; and deputy national secretary, Mr. Orji Ngofa amongst others.

Insisting that the the act of killing and chopping off heads of APC members by their assailants was purely genocide adding that such act would stop soon, the APC acting chairman vowed that the party would make a serious appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the precarious situation of the people of the state.

He said, “I am surprised that this kind of thing is happening in Rivers which indeed is part of Nigerian. It is strange that people will kill their fellow human being, cut off their and take it away as if it were a souvenir.