Oshiomhole To Replace Odigie- Oyegin As APC chairman

Timi Franks and Oyegun

It is no news that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun is currently having a difficult task managing the affairs of the party particularly when he is no longer in the good books of some party chieftains, what is however, news is that a name from the South-Soth zone has been penciled down as replacement.


This is the view of suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Timi Frank,  who said that "the South South zone will meet to pick Oyegun’ replacement".

Frank gave the view in response to the question that the past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has been pencilled down to replace the APC national chairman.
The embattled APC chieftain from South South feigned ignorance of such plans of replacing Oyegun with Oshiomhole but stated that the zonal party committee would meet to bring a replacement once Oyegun was removed.

Said he: “I don’t know about any plan to replace Oyegun with Oshiomhole but what l know is that we have capable people from the South South that can replace Oyegun and the zone would meet to choose a person that would replace the national
chairman”. Some party members have called for the replacement of Oyegun with Oshiomhole, even as it is being alleged that the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is in favour of Oshiomhole.

In 2014 when Oyegun emerged as the National Chairman of APC, he had contested the position with three other aspirants. Among those were: former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva and former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Sam Sam Jaja. Chief Ikimi left APC for what he considered undue process for the emergence of Oyegun as National Chairman.