Oyegun in trouble as 8 APC governors want him sacked

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(Nigeria) The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, seems to be far from over as the national chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun is being asked by some governors of the party to honorably resign.
The governors who paid a surprised visit to Oyegun at the party's national secretariat on Tuesday were said to have conveyed their demands to the chairman in a closed door meeting they had with him.
The governors who visited Oyegun included Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger) Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Abubuakar Badaru (Jigawa).
Sources said that the governors were not happy with Oyegun's poor handling of the crisis bedeviling APC on the heels of the recent National Assembly elections that enthroned Senator Bukola Saraki and Rep. Yakubu Dogara as senate president and Speaker, House of Representatives respectively.
But the Chairman of the party denied knowledge of the development.
Also, the national publicity secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed told Journalists via sms that though he was not privy to what transpired at the meeting, it was not true that the governors told the chairman to resign.
"I am not privy to what the governors came to discuss with national chairman in his office but I can assure you they did not come to ask him to resign," he said.
It will be recalled that the deputy national publicity secretary of the party last week asked Oyegun to resign on the account of serving the interest of a few powerful persons in the party against the majority.

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