I have sacked Oshiomhole from APC – Okorocha

The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said he has sacked the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, in response to his suspension from the party over alleged “anti-party activities”.

The National Working Committee of the APC, on Friday, had also suspended Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State; the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru; and the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu.

Okorocha said this at an interview on Sunday politics, a programme on Channels TV. He claimed Oshiomhole did not have the power to suspend him and accused the National chairman of anti-party activities. The Imo state Governor described the suspension as a joke

The governor also accused the APC chairman of engaging in anti-party activities by “destroying” the party.

He said, 

“I just heard media reports that I’ve been suspended from the party. I think Adams is seeking relevance and looking for attention. He doesn’t have such powers to remove somebody without following the due process. If he is joking, which I think he is, I also have decided to sack him myself.

“So, I have sacked him from the party. If he thinks he can just stand up and say he has suspended me from the party I founded, without following the due process, in the same manner, I have sacked him from the party.

“I learnt that the reasons he adduced for my being suspended from the party is for anti-party reasons. I think Adams is the biggest player of anti-party activities in the APC. The man has simply destroyed the party to a great extent.”

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