Supreme Court Judgement: Keyamo Is a Confusionist, Ignore Him - Oshiomhole Tells Buni

 

A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has attacked the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN).

 

This comes after Keyamo opposed the continuation of Yobe State governor Mai Mala Buni as Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee following the Supreme Court judgement on the Ondo State governorship election, where a minority of the justices pointed out that it was illegal for Buni to hold on to the party’s chairmanship position since the constitution explicitly states that governors cannot hold on to two executives jobs at the same time.

 

Oshiomhole slammed the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN) who was the first to raise an issue on the Supreme Court judgement and called for Buni to resign in order to avoid providing ‘ammunition” for opponents of the party in future.

 

According to him, in a statement issued by his Senior Media Aide, Victor Oshioke, Keyamo was incompetent to call for Buni’s resignation, as he had helped to destroy the well constituted National Working Committee (NWC). Also he accused Keyamo of disloyalty to the structures of government as he made his advice known to the media. According to him, Keyamo, as a serving minister, ought to have given his advice to his counterpart, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) rather than going public.

 

Oshiomhole, who said there was no way Keyamo was working for his return as National Chairman, called on supporters of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to leave him out of the APC crisis and Keyamo’s shenanigans.

 

He said: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) who is now a member of the APC and self-styled aide of Minister of Transportation, Chief Rotimi Amaechi. “In the said statement widely reported in the media, Chief Eze was quoted as saying that Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), Hon. Minister of State for Labour and Employment and others were plotting to bring back Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the APC. “Ordinarily we would have ignored this nonsensical suggestion.

 

However, it is pertinent to set the records straight and put to rest this ridiculous falsehood being marketed by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze “It is strange that a serving Minister would share on public Social Media platforms, what he captioned as a ‘Private and Confidential’ legal opinion for Mr President who appointed him, especially considering that he was in the political kitchen when the pot of crisis he is now offering advice on was being cooked. “If Keyamo has no ulterior motives behind his sudden change of legal interpretations of relevant aspects of the APC Constitution and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the right channel would have been to sit down with his co Minister, the Attorney General of the Federation behind closed doors and put forth his arguments.

 

Meanwhile, amidst criticisms, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor Mai Mala Buni has inaugurated the Appeal Committees for the recently-conducted Ward Congresses of the party. The Secretary of the Committee, Sen. John James AkpanUdoedehe conducted the inauguration at Buhari House, the APC National Secretariat on behalf of Governor Buni.

 

Speaking, AkpanUdoedehe said: “Dear Party Leaders, on behalf of the Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, I welcome you to the National Secretariat of our great Party and to this very important occasion. “In the past few days, the media space has been filled with commentaries on the Supreme Court judgment in Jegede v. Akeredolu, with persons who should know better, coming out with very malicious and self-serving opinions, just to play on the gullibility of the public, while forgetting that our party is made up of very intelligent, sound and intellectually proficient persons who have seen beneath their grandstanding. “The majority judgment of the Supreme Court has strengthened the position of the CECPC and our Chairman. The minority judgment serves only for academic purposes, nothing more.