ORA-24019: identifier for QUEUE_TABLE too long, should not be greater than 24 charact

I have a queue table in a user schema:
aq$_recovery_multiq_table_i

I am trying to drop the queue table like this:
EXECUTE DBMS_AQADM.DROP_QUEUE_TABLE ('AQ$_RECOVERY_MULTIQ_TABLE_I');

But I keep getting this error:
ORA-24019: identifier for QUEUE_TABLE too long, should not be greater than 24 characters

How can I drop it? How come oracle allowed a queue table to be created that was >24 chars, but not I cannot drop it !!!

Anyone else seen this before ?

You can rename the table and then try drop

alter table LONG_TABLE_NAME rename to SHORT_TBL;