Edo APC Faction Explains Removal of Chairman ...Ojezua: Imuse is a shameless impostor

The factional All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman loyal to the party National Chairman, Adam Oshiomhole, Col David Imuse (rtd), at the weekend explained the removal of the Edo State Chairman of the party, Mr. Anselm Ojezua, by the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party, saying “because he relocated the activities of the party to the Government House with decisions about the party taken even before meetings were even called.”

 

However,  Ojezua described Imuse as a “shameless impostor” who he said was contracted to do a job and did it badly, noting that majority of the members of the SWC are with him and that he would get justice in court.

Speaking at a rally in Opoji, Esan Central Local Government Area of the state where members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Prince Tony Omoaghe defected to the APC, Imuse said the APC became a parastatal of government, insisting that due process was followed in his removal and then suspension from the party.

 

Addressing the gathering, Imuse said: “After the elections, we knew there were a lot of problems in the party, so at the level of SWC under the chairmanship of the former chairman, we called a meeting and decided that we must remain neutral so that we can serve as credible mediators. We were to engage all our members that were aggrieved so that we will know their grievances, whether it is against the party or against an individual in the party or against the government or individuals in the government. With what we would gather from them, we were going to have a template to confront all issues.

 

“But two weeks after we took that decision, the former chairman took sides with the governor; he was no longer coming to the party secretariat; he was now more in the Government House than the office he was elected to serve.

"Whenever they called party meetings at the Government House, we would just hear that the party has taken decisions, meanwhile the party is not aware. Agenda for meetings were no longer known to the SWC which decides agenda for meetings. We were no longer in the know of party activities. In most cases, resolutions would be drafted before meetings are called, and when you get to such meetings, the attendance list will just be attached to the resolution they have drafted and one would be informed that party has taken a decision, so we felt that this was abnormal.”

However, reacting through phone yesterday, Ojezua said Imuse is a shameless impostor with dictatorial tendency.

 

According to him, "If anybody has the tendency for such dictatorial actions he ascribed to the state governor, it is Adams Oshiomhole.

"In all my years in politics, I have never seen a governor as democratic as Godwin Obaseki, who always insists that he will abide by whatever decision the party takes even when we want to concede to him. Imuse is a contractor who was given a job to do but did it badly and that is why I am in court. I am confident that I will win and I can tell you that majority of the members of the SWC are with me."