A senatorial aspirant seeking to contest on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Tunji Abayomi has issued a 24-hour notice to the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adam Oshiomhole to resign his position.

Addressing a press conference in Akure, the state capital on Wednesday, Abayomi, who is seeking the party’s ticket to represent Ondo North Senatorial District in the National Assembly accused Oshiomhole of sabotaging the efforts of the party by working against it.

Reacting to the automatic clearance given to three senators in the state to contest in the 2019 general election, Abayomi said Oshiomhole was no longer fit to continue to lead the APC as his tenure was bringing more crisis and disunity to the party.

Abayomi’s words: “Oshiomhole does not have the intellectual capacity to understand issues and the wisdom to bridge differences. He does not have respect to take decision and tolerance to respond to the challenges and the opposing views that will advance the party.

“If he failed or succeeded as governor, certainly he has failed tremendously as National Chairman of the party. He does not have the intellectual capacity to understand issues and the wisdom to bridge differences.

“He does not have respect to take decision and tolerance to respond to the challenges and the opposing views that will advance the party. If he failed or succeeded as Governor, certainly he has failed tremendously as National Chairman of the party.

“The tragedy is that he was elected to reduce the crisis of the party, but he has assumed the position to increase the crisis. In order not to kill the APC, please, Mr. Adams Oshiomole, resign now because it would be wrong to underestimate the character of the people of Ondo State.

While disclosing that he had written to Oshiomhole to explore the internal mechanisms of the party in addressing his grievances, he added: “It is necessary to remind him that we have been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Nigeria from pre-independence until now.

“Let Adams Oshiomhole know that our fathers raised us to stand up for something and not to fall for everything. And in this particular case, we will stand up for something and for the rule of law, constitution of APC and constitution of Nigeria.

“And we will not equivocate, retreat nor move an inch from maintaining that position. You look at a leader who puts before a nation that the National Working Committee (NWC) took a decision. Mr. Oshiomhole lied to the people and there was no NWC that sat, and if there was one, he should give us the minutes of the meeting.

“He should also give us the time the meeting was held and the decisions that was taken and with number of voters for what he has put out. In fact, being the Chairman, he can tell a lie, and he is unfit and unsuitable to lead APC that is supposed to be a party of change.

“So, he has just 24 hours to explore the internal mechanism of the party, but if he fails, he will see the show of Ondo State people.”