‘Oshiomhole should apologise to APC leaders’

A governorship aspirant in Edo State, Mr. Blessing Agbomhere, has called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to tender an apology to the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress for denigrating the party leaders.

Agbomhere, an aspirant on the platform of the APC in the state, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday while reacting to comments attributed to the governor during a visit by the Olagunsoye Oyinlola-led APC fact-finding/reconciliation committee of the APC.

Oshiomhole was quoted as saying there was no problem in the state chapter of the APC and that the national secretariat of the party should first settle its internal crisis at the national level before “shedding crocodile tears” about Edo State.

According to the aspirant, the governor’s utterances and conduct are not statesman-like.

Agbomhere added, “The utterance is an attempt by Adams Oshiomhole to tarnish the image of the national secretariat of the APC and blackmail it into abandoning the Edo APC to his dictates and desperation to impose his close ally and business partner on Edo people.

“The governor does not have any right to insult the national secretariat of the party, a man who has never voted for the party.

“If Adams Oshiomhole is truly a member of the APC, who believes in the party’s constitution, he should have known that his godson is not qualified to be the governor of Edo State.

“Considering my contributions to the party, I am more qualified than Adams Oshiomhole’s candidate. Economically, I will dwarf him, and in character, I will thrash him.”

He said the governor should either apologise and seek forgiveness from the party or he should be shown the way out.