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Now Diri Is governor, Oshiomhole should resign — Wike

By Kelvin Ebiri and Ann Godwin, Port Harcourt 
16 February 2020   |   2:35 am
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been asked to resign, due to his failure to thwart Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, from assuming office, which he boasted about.

• We Stopped Oshiomhole, APC From Stealing Our Mandate

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been asked to resign, due to his failure to thwart Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, from assuming office, which he boasted about.

The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, who demanded the resignation, said Oshiomhole lacks the power to challenge the Supreme Court’s pronouncement.  

Wike told journalists in Port Harcourt, yesterday, that if the APC National Chairman were a man of his word, after creating tension that nobody would be sworn into office as governor of Bayelsa State, which did not happen, he should have honourably resigned.He wondered where Oshiomhole derived his power to make unguided utterances capable of destabilising the country, when the Supreme Court had made a pronouncement, whether good or bad. 

He declared that the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and his associates wanted to steal the mandate of Rivers people, but were strongly resisted, hence Oshiomhole’s bitterness towards Rivers State. 

Wike stressed that under no circumstances would Rivers people allow Oshiomhole and his associates to steal their mandate.He said: “This is a country where you find people with no character. Today, they sing a particular song; tomorrow they sing another song. I think Oshiomhole as APC National Chairman is not a character that anybody should associate with… “People think that armed robbers are only those who cart away people’s money. The worst form of armed robbery is when you steal people’s mandate…

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