ABUJA--- The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Osita Okechukwu, has said that the embattled national chairman of the ruling All Progresdives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhile, has seized to be a legally recognised member of the party.

Okechukwu spoke against the backdrop of the ongoing efforts to reconcile warring factions of the party across the cpuntry.

The VON- DG spoke Friday, while reacting to the indefinite adjournment of the appeal against the suit suspending Oshiomhole from the party by the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja.

Oshiomhole had fiked an appeal challenging the Feferal High Court order suspended him from office as the National Chairman of the APC, pointing out that he was not sure that the current peace initiatives in the party would restore normalcy in the party. 

His words, "Without prejudice to the ongoing trial, whether the Appeal Court sat today or not, it must hold session some day, and the main issue remains whether a man suspended by his ward executive can preside over same association? 

"The truth is that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is no longer validly, a member of APC. 

"Don’t forget that Oshiomhole validated the suspension of Mr Inua Abdulkadir, vice chairman North West, by his ward. It’s trite law that one cannot probate and reprobate.

"Like Super King he glossed over his suspension and our great party’s constitution is scant with time, for it allows only seven days to appeal.

"As of now, permit me to state that one was impressed with Mr President intervention, which is fatherly. Secondly, I was also enthused by Comrade Oshimohole’s statement that, ‘I have learnt my lessons; I have asked everyone, whatever they consider to be my shortcomings, for forgiveness and they have forgiven me, ...... I was humbled yesterday at the court.” 

"We all factually need peace.

However, as a student of Political Science and one who devoted time to study dictatorship, I am skeptical and bidding my time to believe hook line and sinker Comrade Oshiohmole. 

"As a Christian I may have forgiven him, but not all have, for history is not a witness in many instances, where a dictator has changed his colours. 

"If he changes for good that will be an exception and we will glorify Almighty God that the virus has been curbed.

One event which will soonest test Comrade’s commitment to the statement cited above, in the next few days or weeks, is the resolution of Edo State APC’s imbroglio.

"Albeit, without being cynical Pa Bisi Akande’s Committee cannot resolve it without his openness. The way and manner he spearheads the reconciliation with his brethren in Edo State, before the arrival of the Akande Committee will tell us whether the Osho-Virus is receding. 

"In Edo, he holds the peace banner and crisis flag." 

Justice Danlami Senchi of the FCT high court sitting at Jabi had in a ruling on March 4, 2020, ordered Oshiomhole to stop parading himself as the national chairman of the APC, pending the determination of a substantive suit brought against him by six aggrieved members of the party.

However, the Court of Appeal, Monday ordered stay of execution of the high court order, pending the determination of Oshiomhole's appeal. 

The order of the appellate court followed an ex-parte application, fiked by the embattled chairman through his lead Counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN.

Although, hearing of the substantive appeal was fixed for Friday, however, the Court of Appeal failed to sit and adjourned the matter indefinitely.