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The deputy chairman (North) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Lawal Shuaibu, on Tuesday called for the resignation of the party’s chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
In a letter dated May 27, 2019, and addressed to the chairman, Shaibu called on Oshiomhole to resign over what he termed leadership “failure”.
Mr Shuaibu placed the responsibility for the party’s loss of the Zamfara state to the opposition PDP squarely on the shoulders of the former governor of Edo state.
It will be recalled that the country’s apec court last Friday voided the victory of the ruling APC in Zamfara in the governorship, national and state assembly seats and directed INEC to recognise the runners up in the elections as winners.
The former Senator from Zamfara also listed other dwindling fortunes of the party, which he said “is on the path of extinction”, to buttress his claims.
He wrote, “We had 23 states in 2015 but after the elections we lost 7 states. We also had 60 senators in 2015, at the end of the election count we end up with 57 in 2019.”
“In advanced democracies, people who fail to add value or build over what they met on assumption of duty show some civilised example, they honourably bow out.”
The ruling party is yet to respond to Shaibu’s letter.
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