Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said that APC
National Chairman, Adams Oshiomole, lacks moral justification to call
for the resignation of INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmoud’s resignation, over
the postponement of the elections.
Shortly after INEC announced the sudden postponement of the
elections, Oshiomole who appeared shocked by the announcement, called
for Mahmoud’s resignation. In his opinion, the action of the INEC
chairman and his team to postpone the electuion was borne from their
lack of competence to conduct the elections.
Reacting to Oshiomole’s call, Shittu said Oshiomole has no moral
justification to criticize Mahmoud after he conducted the most
fraudulent primary in the history of APC. Shittu who was gunning to be
the APC governorship candidate in Oyo state, was screened out after he
was exposed for skipping the mandatory National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC).
“When Oshiomhole supervised that party primaries elections, which can
be described as most horrible and corrupt in the history of the party,
who called for his resignation? I will not support such call for
resignation of the INEC chairman. To err is human. We have not seen any
political motivation as to what has happened in INEC.If Oshiomhole calls for resignation of the INEC chairman, he should
also be preparing to resign as chairman of APC for conducting primaries
marred by irregularities, and even accused of corruption in its conduct.
Did anybody ask him to resign for the horrible management of primary
elections under his watch?“This is the first election that Professor Yakubu would be
conducting, we need to give him the benefit of doubt and I will advise
that all the political parties should be vigilant. If you bring in
another chairman, when does such person begin to learn the process? Or
will you on the basis of that call for another rescheduling of the
elections? Certainly, it is unacceptable for anyone to ask for
resignation of INEC chairman.” he said