.He is a cancer to our party –Oyegun
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections in Ebonyi State, Senator Julius Ucha, yesterday berated the outgoing National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for allegedly causing parallel congresses in the party across the states by taking sides in the crisis that rocked the party before, during and after the congresses.
Ucha, who spoke at a press conference in Abakaliki, accused Oyegun of destroying APC in the process.
“John Oyegun is a malignant tumour on APC. I said this because he has lost sense of honour and has allowed pride, prejudice, self knowledge and selfishness to overwhelm him including greed.”
But in a swift reaction, Chief Oyegun described Ucha as a cancer in the party who is aggrieved because he could not emerge the leader of the party in Ebonyi State in his efforts to upstage the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu.
Oyegun said: “Ucha is a cancer in the party and he will leave in the next few weeks. He wants to be leader of the party and make vain efforts to upstage Dr. Onu, who was the Chairman of ANPP, one of the legacy parties that fused into APC.”
Explaining his position, Ucha said: “If the only thing he can achieve for the party now is to destroy the institution because he feels he is no longer wanted, because of his mandate is expiring, now he thinks the best thing to do is to destroy the institution through which he has been blessed by God, it is so sad.
“He is a man for the purposes of the just concluded congresses, who created congress committees. In some states, there were three congress committees from the national headquarters. In some there were two congress committees. You split one congress committee into two, the chairman or secretary will be conducting congress for one group, some other members of the committee conducted congress for another group in one political party. That is an aberration; that is not democracy that also is hypocrisy.
“In a situation where the National Chairman of a political party has promoted two congresses or three congresses in one state and adopted the result of a particular congress without at least trying to harmonise them to ensure that he finds out the truth to know what has happened in the field signifies danger. It shows that the man’s political wisdom has somersaulted, it shows the man is making it impossible for the party to have recognition for purposes of winning election”, he said.