Oshiomhole’s Camp : APC NWC Disowns Giadom, Affirms Ajimobi As Acting National Chairman

Says he has resigned from party to contest Rivers Dep Gov
…Appoints Gov Uzodinma to head Edo Primary committee, Appeal Panel

The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has today disclosed to newsmen the decision to appoint Senator Hope Uzodinma to oversee the appeals emanating from the Edo State Governorship primaries, quashing all decisions taken by Mr. Victor Giadom.

It would be recalled that there is reign of uncertainty in the secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as National Working Committee (NWC) members loyal to the suspended National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, met and quashed all the decisions taken by the Acting Chairman, Victor Giadom, insisting that he has resigned his membership of the party.

Addressing newsmen at the party’s secretariat, party’s National Vice Chairman (South-south), Hilliard Eta, said that the national leadership has also constituted a committee to conduct the primaries for the Edo State governorship election, appointing the governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, to head the panel while Senator Ajibola Bashiru will serve as panel secretary.

He emphasised that having resigned to contest the Rivers state deputy governorship position during the 2019 general elections, Giadom has not been readmitted into the party, stressing that the national leadership equally constituted a Primary Appeal Committee for the Edo state governorship poll.

Furthermore, he said that although the constitution was silent on who should act in the absence of the national chairman and the Deputy National Chairman (South), Abiola Ajimobi, currently ill, the members of the NWC appointed him to take charge of the secretariat.

A member of the NWC however described Giadom as an impostor,that the court order he was parading was to chair the proposed emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting before the outbreak of the health pandemic.

He also announced the composition of a five-man Election Appeal Panel headed by Prof. Mustapha Bello and Dr. Kayode Ajulo as the secretary of the panel.

Eta also said Hon Victor Giadon has ceased to be a member of the NWC having resigned to contest for Deputy Governorship of Rivers State during the last general elections.