Chief Tom Ikimi Quits APC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Former National chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Tom Ikimi,  has announced his withdrawal from the party.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Ikimi participation in the party has been limited since the National Convention of the party in June which produced Chief  John Oyegun as the party’s national chairman.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ikimi was interested in the position but was allegedly forced to withdraw from the race to pave way for the emergence of the alleged anointed candidate of the national leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <br /></div>

Chief Tom Ikimi Quits APC

Former National chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Tom Ikimi,  has announced his withdrawal from the party....

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Chief Tom Ikimi Set To Dump APC for PDP

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BENIN CITY— THERE are indications that the former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, may soon dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the APC leader was said to have shunned the caucus meeting of the party which took place in Abuja last week.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vanguard gathered that Ikimi was invited for the caucus meeting as well as that of the national leadership of the party with a view to make him remain in the party.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will be recalled that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and other leaders of the party in the state had begged Ikimi not to leave the party after he condemned the processes that led to the emergence of Chief John Odigie Oyegun as the National Chairman of APC.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Ikimi had stayed away from all political activities of the APC since the convention of the party. Vanguard gathered that he was being wooed by the top hierarchy of the PDP to join the party.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Ikimi who broke his silence to Vanguard, said he still does not recognise Oyegun as the National Chairman of the party because of what he described as the alleged undemocratic manner he emerged.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said “I have decided to watch the party from afar because I believe that things are not right. If we are talking about democracy and being a credible alternative to the PDP, we must learn how to do things the proper way. If Tinubu and others know that they don’t own the party, then we can now talk. There are still some fundamental issues that are still unresolved.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t mind working with anybody as national chairman of the party, whether from Kogi or Kwara but what I am saying is that no one man should arrogate himself as the owner of the party. That is why people are leaving the party. And people are tolerating it because they don’t want to lose presidential or vice presidential tickets. The day they lose those tickets, they will leave the party.”</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ikimi-set-dump-apc-pdp/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> Source: Vanguard</div>

Chief Tom Ikimi Set To Dump APC for PDP

BENIN CITY— THERE are indications that the former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, may soon dump the All Progressives Congress, ...

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