Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has responded to his suspension by the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr Okorocha, alongside Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, was on Friday suspended for anti-party activities.
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru, and the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, were also suspended.
However, in an interview on Sunday Politics, a live programme on Channels Television, Okorocha said Oshiomhole lacked the power to remove a party member.
“I just heard media reports that I’ve been suspended from the party. I think Adams is seeking relevance and looking for attention. He doesn’t have such powers to remove somebody without following the due process. If he is joking, which I think he is, I also have decided to sack him myself.
“So, I have sacked him from the party. If he thinks he can just stand up and say he has suspended me from the party I founded, without following the due process, in the same manner, I have sacked him from the party.
“I learnt that the reasons he adduced for my being suspended from the party is for anti-party reasons. I think Adams is the biggest player of anti-party activities in the APC. The man has simply destroyed the party to a great extent,” he said.
