‘Oshiomhole must go’ campaign heightens, as APC group says he’s to blame for 96% of party’s woes

Calls for the resignation of All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, has continued to gain more support.

This is especially as a group from Oshiomhole’s South-South zone, Rivers Unity House (RUH), has joined those demanding that the former governor of Edo State vacate as the chairman of the ruling APC.

According to the group, Oshiomhole is allegedly responsible for about 96 per cent of the problems in the party.

RUH’s position on Oshiomhole ‘must go campaign’ is coming just as a former governor of old Sokoto State, Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim, also on Thursday backed the position of a deputy national chairman of APC, Alhaji Lawal Shuaibu, on Oshiomhole to resign.

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In a statement in Port Harcourt, RUH convener, Kingsley Wali said:

“It is natural, in politics, that whenever there are losses, people have to be held accountable. Just like if the party enjoys decent measure of victory, it will obviously point out those who made it possible and then compensate them.

“I have been consistent with the position that Oshiomhole is 96 percent responsible for the problems APC had. It boils down to nothing but somebody feeling that he knows everything and no other person is smarter than him.

“I think the reasonable thing to do is for APC as a party to ask Oshiomhole to vacate the seat. If we insist on understanding or characterizing the Next Level slogan of APC, the kind of attitude Oshiomhole exhibited cannot be in tandem with the President’s vision on Nigeria.

“Of what is a party chairman who doesn’t take any form of criticism; once even if it is one councilor in Karadamuda or Akassa, that says something about him, he replies in the same measure.

“I worry because where we are heading for might not be too nice. Like Alhaji Shuaibu said, all it take for the PDP to control the National Assembly is two seats or six or seven stubborn APC senators. It is a done deal and the same man is there threatening hell fire and brimstone about how APC will not do any business with PDP. In 2019, you still see the other party as party of enemies? Who does that?”

He noted that it would be delusional of the APC to claim victory in the last elections, going by the loss suffered in areas under its control before now.

“Let’s not demean ourselves that we won the Presidency. What about the governorship seats? Did we gain more senatorial seat now that we did in 2015? No. So if you look at it properly, APC lost in this last election.

“We are just lucky that the profile of the President got us to where we are today that we control the Presidency.”

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