Oshiomhole cries out, alleges gang-up against him in APC

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has raised the alarm over an alleged gang-up against him by some stakeholders in the party.

According to the former Edo State governor, the stakeholders ganging up against him are those who are not comfortable with the positive reforms his leadership has brought to the party.

Oshiomhole, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Simon Ebebgulem, in Abuja, on Sunday, said an assertion by a former presidential aspirant on the platform of the party, Alhaji Mumakai Unagha, that the APC cannot win the 2019 elections under his leadership is not true.

The party chairman insisted that the National Working Committee, NWC, under him is working hard to reposition the party for greater success.

The statement reads: “The totality of Unagha’s claims, without necessarily addressing them one after the other, tallies with cooked-up narratives being sponsored by some influential stakeholders in their respective states that Comrade Oshiomhole is responsible for all the problems in the APC at the moment.

“These influential stakeholders, according to the grapevine, have begun to mobilise to pass a no-confidence vote in the leadership of Oshiomhole, having failed to impose their preferred candidates on the party in the nomination process.

“Comrade Oshiomhole did not become national chairman of the governing party to bring it down a notch from the pedestal of its 2015 electoral victory let alone to preside over its liquidation.

“Rather, his single-minded goal, from the outset of his declaration of interest in the position, was to deploy his capacity in helping to strengthen and reposition the party as a truly supreme and disciplined political entity.

“Although, it might appear fortuitous to some persons that he became national chairman at the threshold of the 2019 general election; the truth is that there is no accident in predestination.

“We must appreciate the fact that it has pleased the Almighty God to place him in the saddle of APC leadership at this time for a purpose.

“The purpose has begun to manifest in its vast flourish and ramifications: instilling discipline, ensuring party supremacy, promoting due process, dealing with impunity and executive arrogance wherever they manifest to undermine intra-party electoral processes in the states.”

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The APC has been contending with backslashes from its primary elections across the country, with several aggrieved members, especially members of the National Assembly waiting for the report of the appeal committee for their next line of action.

Also, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha recently openly critisized Oshiomhole’s handling of the primaries. She penned harsh words on the primaries on the social media site, Twitter.

 

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