By Bayo Onanuga, PM NEWS

Victor Giadom, the All Progressives Congress(APC) deputy national secretary, ended up with eggs on his face on Monday.

He has been the arrow head of the move by some rebels within the party to oust Adams Oshiomhole as chairman. But his efforts were aborted at Aso Villa and the Appeal court, in a stunning turn-around acceded to Oshiomhole’s prayer by hanging a lower court order removing Oshiomhole as chairman.

Giadom’s moves began to fall into smithereens after President Buhari and governors of the party jettisoned the plans for an emergency meeting of National Executive Committee.

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Hours after, a Federal court in Lagos stopped the planned NEC meeting and the appeal court after first making Oshiomhole miserable by not hearing his appeal, made a volte-face by listening to him and giving him the legal order he wanted.

The developments, in quick succession would make Giadom scurry back into his playbook on how to remove a party leader.

Until Monday’s decision, Giadom had, in all intent and purposes installed himself as Oshiomhole’s interim successor, waving a court order and the endorsement of a faction of South South APC, which supported him at a meeting said to have held at Governor Godwin Obaseki’s Abuja home.

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Matters had initially become miserable for Oshiomhole on Monday as the Court of Appeal that was set to hear his case for a stay of execution of the Abuja court judgment failed to hear him and instead said it would give a fresh date in the future.

At the same time, his opponents dug in, with Mustapha Saliu, rushing to Justice S.U. Bature of the FCT High Court to procure another interim order that makes Giadom APC acting national chairman for the purpose of the 17 March NEC meeting and any other NEC meeting. Another Abuja court had triggered the whole crisis two weeks ago by asking Oshiomhole to step aside, without up till now, hearing a whimper from Oshiomhole.

Giadom, a former works commissioner in the second term of Rotimi Amaechi as governor of Rivers State(2011-2015), ought not to be a member of the National Working Committee of the party, if the party had kept to the rules.

He resigned his position in 2019 to be the running mate of Tonye Cole in the court-aborted bid for Rivers governorship race and ought not to have returned to take his post in the NWC, when it is not a family title. But Oshiomhole accepted him and even gave him a higher responsibility to step in as acting national secretary, after Mai Mala Bunu, went on to become governor of Yobe State.

Giadom, from the vantage position is now helping the rebels within and outside the NWC to complete Oshiomhole’s coup de grace.

Giadom played his hand very early as the Brutus within the Oshiomhole-run NWC after he quickly said the party would carry out the court order suspending Oshiomhole as APC party chairman, knowing that Oshiomhole had not even been heard by the court.

He was certainly part of the plot and his involvement bloomed more and more into light in the next few days.

It's not yet Uhuru for Oshiomole. So stop the baseless writings.

Giadom didn’t fail..

Our judicially is the for highest bidder .. depending on jurisdiction.

... giadom is the acting chairman of Apc ..

Suit yaself with any of the court judgement.. no judgment has been overruled ...

Status remain same..

Secondly he has initiated the end of apc..and killed the ambition of an overzealous local lord.

Love this..

Giadom is the man!

Some people are crying up there. E can pain. .....

see them

The thing pain Igbo jew well well Oshiomole for president 2023

Igbos don cry tire

Odale

Herdsmen:
Giadom didn’t fail..

Our judicially is the for highest bidder .. depending on jurisdiction.

... giadom is the acting chairman of Apc ..

Suit yaself with any of the court judgement.. no judgment has been overruled ...

Status remain same..

Secondly he has initiated the end of apc..and killed the ambition of an overzealous local lord.

Love this..

Giadom is the man!

SLAP44:
It's not yet Uhuru for Oshiomole. So stop the baseless writings.

It's high time you freed yourselves from the self hatred and delusion of the enemies of your enemies becoming your friends. You hate Amaechi, but love Giadom, you hate El-Rufai, but admired his friendship with SLS...you keep confusing yourselves with each comment on Nairaland

Herdsmen:
Giadom didn’t fail..

Our judicially is the for highest bidder .. depending on jurisdiction.

... giadom is the acting chairman of Apc ..

Suit yaself with any of the court judgement.. no judgment has been overruled ...

Status remain same..

Secondly he has initiated the end of apc..and killed the ambition of an overzealous local lord.

Love this..

Giadom is the man!

Our judicially is the for highest bidder

Like Bayelsa's SC judgement?

helinues:




Like Bayelsa's SC judgement?

Good morning..
Yes and IMO state SC Judgement

Giadom was just a tool in the plot of some anti-osho forces within the party. He can't work on his own without support of some heavy weights.

Herdsmen:
Giadom didn’t fail..

Our judicially is the for highest bidder .. depending on jurisdiction.

... giadom is the acting chairman of Apc ..

Suit yaself with any of the court judgement.. no judgment has been overruled ...

Status remain same..

Secondly he has initiated the end of apc..and killed the ambition of an overzealous local lord.

Love this..

Giadom is the man!

Is it that you cannot read? Or you don't understand what you read?

Appeal court ordered a stay on execution of the previous judgement by the high court to suspend Osho. So he remains the national chairman of the party.

Giadom may be furiously working on the next steps to take but as of now, he is in no man's land.