The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has threatened to suspend the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige from the party if he fails to carry out the parrty’s directives.

The threat is coming barely weeks after Oshiomhole had directed Ngige to inaugurate boards into parastatals in his ministry.The minister had however explained that the delay was due to the fraud allegedly perpetuated by the former board.

Ngige also explained that an administrative panel set up by the ministry to look into the finances of the board had recently submitted its report which revealed that the sum of ₦40 billion could not be accounted for.

Speaking to State House correspondents on Monday shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Staff to the President at the State House, Oshiomhole said if eventually Ngige is expelled from the party, he would ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari sacks him from his cabinet.

“For me it is the height of mischief for any minister, you cannot purport to be honourable minister and you act dishonourably and nobody is greater than the party. And if the President condones disrespect for his office, I will not condone disrespect for the party.

“And when we expel the minister, we will prevail on the president that he can’t keep in his cabinet people who have neither respect for his own decisions nor have respect for the party without which they would not have been ministers.

“There are no independent candidate in our system, nobody, I emphasis no minister is above the party and they have taken undue advantage of the president’s fatherly disposition.

“Now, it is the same green pen that made them ministers that appointed these boards that they are refusing to swear in. And it is absolutely illegal for a minister in a democracy to prey the powers of the board because the laws establishing those institutions are clear, that the boards have procedures to follow.

“So, when a minister sits in his office to appropriate the powers of the board in a democracy, not in a dictatorship, award contract that didn’t go through boards, those are clearly abuse of office for which they are liable.

“I am convinced that what they are doing is not with the endorsement of Mr. President. Over the period they have tried to drop the president’s name but I tell them it is the same authority that appoints these people.

“So, we are informing them that it is either they comply to the president’s instructions or they comply with the party’s position or they go and administer outside the government.

“We have respect for ministers but only to the extent that they recognize that they are a product of a political party and we are not negotiating that. If they did that in the past, under our leadership we will not tolerate it.

“They either comply or we will expel them from the party. When we expel them we will find out how a government can keep a rebel in the cabinet. There is no question about that,” Oshiomhole said.