Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, says Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is wrong to have said Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the ruling party, is running the affairs of the party rightly.
Tinubu had expressed support for Oshiomhole after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock on Wednesday.
The APC leader had said he was against those mounting pressure on Oshiomhole to step down.
But speaking on Thursday after meeting Buhari on Thursday, Okorocha said Tinubu was wrong to have said that Oshiomhole was doing the right thing.
“Maybe he is ill-informed; if he is properly informed, he will not be saying Oshiomhole is doing the right thing in the party,” Okorocha told state house correspondents.
Okorocha is one of the APC governors said to be dissatisfied with the leadership of the party over the difficulty he is experiencing in his bid to have Uche Nwosu, his son-in-law, succeed him.
On his part, Oshiomhole has vowed not to do what he considers improper in order to keep his job.
“Let me say that if there is a choice between my conscience – what I believe is right and mortgaging that conscience in order to keep the job, I will have no difficulty resolving it in favour of my conscience,” Oshiomhole had said on Wednesday.
“And those who know me know that at my age, I cannot learn new tricks. I am absolutely committed to justice, fairness, I am a stickler to enforcement of rules; because the source of relevance is derived from rules. I have lived my life fighting for justice and fairness.
“Three governors are not particularly pleased with the outcome of the primaries in their states. These are internal family issues; they are my friends, and that is important, even in moment of distress, that friendship is I want to believe is enough to help us to build a reconciliation.”
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