There’s A Gang Up Against Me – Oshiomhole

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that some unnamed party stakeholders were ganging up against him.

He stated that the positive reform of the regime as the chairman of the party had prompted these aggrieved fellows to gang up against him.

Oshiomhole, in a press release by his Chief Press Secretary Simon Ebebgulem, in Abuja on Sunday, said the National Working Committee of the APC under his leadership was working towards repositioning the party to achieve greater successes.

Some aggrieved members of the party, led by one Alhaji Mumakai Unagha, a presidential Aspirant of the party had said they doubted if the chairman of the party was the right person to ensure the success of the party during the 2019 polls.

While reacting to some of the claims made by the former Presidential aspirant, the statement read in part: “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”.

The statement further read; “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.”

Oshiomhole’s handling of the recently concluded APC primaries across the nation drew criticisms from some of the party’s aggrieved stakeholders including the Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari who did not hide her disappointment as she took to her twitter handle to vent her anger. Others who were not pleased with him included the Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari among others.