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These are trying times for Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, embattled national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Despite leading the party to victory in the just concluded Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections, many stakeholders in the APC still believe Oshiomhole’s continued stay as the number one officer in the party is doing the party more harm than good and thus have asked him to throw in the towel or be forced out.

Critical stakeholders in the APC such as John Odigie- Oyegun, the man whom Oshiomhole succeeded have asked him to resign as the national chairman of the party saying he lacked what it takes to run a national party.

“Oshiomhole fails because he lacks the temperament that is required to run a political party. He lacks the capacity to manage the different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party. He acts in direct opposite of decisions taken by NWC. No minutes of NWC meetings which, in any event, take place outside the party secretariat”.

“How would you not have crises in states with the confusion that Oshiomhole created when he gave the states freedom to choose their methods of choosing candidates for elections? Much of the crisis in states arose out of sheer incapacity on the part of the current chairman. How does this Oshiomhole’s incapacity become traps by Oyegun?”

“He (Oshiomhole) engages his mouth before engaging his mind, so he offends party members. Only a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools. Indeed Oshiomhole is degrading and demarketing the party. Rather than seek to bring more people on board, he is chasing people out of the party with his agbero style of engagement,”.

While many may have claimed Oyegun’s outburst is borne out of envy having lost his position to Oshiomhole, that cannot be said of Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), who recently said the former Edo state governor is creating more problems for the party with his aggressive attitude.

Sagay said he would personally demand the removal of Oshiomhole if Edo State, the only state controlled by the APC in the South-South, was lost to the opposition.

In a chat with Daily Independent on the lingering rift between Oshiomhole, a former two-time governor of Edo, and his successor, Governor Godwin Obaseki, Sagay said he had severally advised Oshiomhole on the need to be less combative in his dealing with people but added that the former labour leader ignored his advice.

According to him, Oshiomhole’s aggressive approach has cost the APC some states in the country such as Zamfara, Rivers, and others.

Expressing worry over the developments, Sagay said if care was not taken, the APC might be left with no single state by the time Oshiomhole completes his tenure, given his confrontational approach to issues.

According to the legal expert, “I have advised Oshiomhole rather unsuccessfully to stop being combative, to stop punching, and all these aggressive behaviour.

“In a leadership position, you need to stoop to conquer, you need to be restrained. Even when people are wrong and you want to correct them, you need to show that you are not after humiliating them and that you will work with them to correct things; not to be aggressive, threatening and engaging in pugilistic method. I told him this but he ignored it.

“Because of his aggression, we have lost quite a number of states. We lost Rivers State; we didn’t have a chance to contest. We lost Zamfara, where we won the election and all our victories were handed over by the Supreme Court to the PDP, all because of Oshiomhole’s aggression. I think there were also two other states which we lost because of his aggressive attitude.”

While the debate is still raging, Charles Idahosa, a former Commissioner for Information in Edo state and chieftain of the party on Monday raised the alarm that the party is dying under Oshiomhole’s leadership.

Idahosa, who made the call while reacting to issues surrounding the crises rocking the party in the state, added that the APC is losing its grip due to alleged overbearing attitude of Oshiomhole.

Apparently alluding to Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s claim that he was among the founders of the APC, Idahosa insisted that “those who claimed to have been among those who formed the party in the state are not.”

According to him: “I am a founding father, I see people just coming into the party to destroy it. That is one of the reasons I cannot keep quiet”.

“I happened to have been among the five Nigerians that formed the Action Congress for Democrat (ACD), that is today APC. In 2006, after we formed the ACD, [Lucky] Igbinedion disowned ACD.

“I was the one that is being disowned, because in 2006, they saw me at a meeting of the ACD. The Edo State government at that time quickly disowned me, but it is very interesting today that everybody is now claiming APC.

“Adams Oshiomhole as at that time was still carrying placards on the streets of Lagos and Abuja, protesting as a labour leader. That was when we formed this party. We knew the roles he played that time.

“APC is dying gradually under Oshiomhole, and there is no way somebody like me can see issues and pretend not to see it.”

Idahosa who said that Oshiomhole has no political home-base, noted that the only way out for him is to tender his resignation letter as national chairman, as he lacks the political acumen to lead the party, but as a labour leader.

“Lech Wałsa was a great labour leader who led a riot in Poland and for that popularity, they voted him to become President of Poland and after few years, he crashed out. Trade unionism and activism is completely different from politics”.

“Oshiomhole has been a very good trade union leader, but as a leader of a political party, he does not have the temperament, he does not have the character to lead the party”.

“The best we can do for himself is to tender his resignation so that the party can have peace because the way the party is going, it is going out of control”.

“The National Chairman is the problem we have in Edo state . We don’t want bloodshed in Edo. Let him resign and there will be fresh elections. These divisive roles he is playing he wants to be dictating what happened in this state. It is time for him to step aside”.

“Oshiomhole is part and parcel of the whole thing. Eight members of the State APC exco are in Abuja. Who is feeding them? On the 27 he invited Anselm as chairman, on December 6th he paraded another person that the court has restrain as Chairman; a man that cannot enter the party secretariat in Bénin.”

He however expressed optimism that Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki would get the party’s ticket whether through direct primaries or indirect primaries, noting that it is the party in the state that decides what patterns it will use to conduct its primaries.

On rumoured defection of Governor Obaseki to the PDP, Idahosa dismissed the rumour as being peddled by those he termed Abuja politicians.

“It is a black lie to say that the governor is leaving the party for another. Governor Obaseki is not leaving the APC for anybody. He is getting the party ticket and he must do his second term” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/odds-against-oshiomhole-as-apc-chair/

Oshiomole is abusing the seat of his office.

He forgot that Buhari will not be there to support him at all time.

The Apc is now more far divided at the national level and at the state level.

But thanks to Oshiomole bad style of politics.

nairavsdollars:
You people just rush to type trash just to make FTC. Are you not aware the governors are plotting his removal and General Buhari is not willing to help him?

what u saw, u will surely reap simple

nairavsdollars:
You people just rush to type trash just to make FTC. Are you not aware the governors are plotting his removal and General Buhari is not willing to help him?

You are the one rehashing trash and I would to know who's paying you.
Stupidly quoting irrelevant people such as oyegun and Idahosa!

The uprising that Nigerians are seeking will not start from the South East, neither will it start from the Niger Delta, talk more of SW

The uprising will start from the very North. When they start, there will no stopping them.

Those ones don't care for bullet or english.

This picture I saw here I doubt if this is Edo state governor. It has a little resemblance like wike or is the poster making a big mistake. Please nairalanders help me check this pix very well. Mean why, I always want the downfall of APC both the state level and federal level so if they having issue, I think I will give glory to God. Thank u

nairavsdollars:
You people just rush to type trash just to make FTC. Are you not aware the governors are plotting his removal and General Buhari is not willing to help him?

you don join the punch abi
General Buhari indeed...

“Lech Wałsa was a great labour leader who led a riot in Poland and for that popularity, they voted him to become President of Poland and after few years, he crashed out. Trade unionism and activism is completely different from politics”
this what I've being saying activist are not meant to be in politics.......they will fail in a great manner.
remain the pressure the people need to fight against oppression than being part of the pressure that is killing the people.
all the freedom fighters failed us.

WarriIntellect:
Oshiomole has been involved in most of APC's victory as of lately from the case of yahaya bello ,to the case of smart adeyemi...Oshiomole is a political Genius....




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the greatest victory apc ever won( winning the presidency from a sitting president in the opposition party) was not under his leadership, yet when the powers that be decided that oyegun was no longer relevant to them, they got rid of him, oshiomole is still chairman because the power brokers in apc still find him useful, the moment they no longer need him he is a goner, and as for those states apc won, even if oshiomole was not the apc chairman apc would have still won those states.

Ayoswit:
But the man is winning elections na

No be to win be the issue, dem say Oshobaba dey talk and behave anyhow like Agbero. They want someone presentable.

Use and dump party.. After they has used his ruggedness to achieve their plans, now they want to dump him.
Didn't they see that he was temperamental before he was elected??
Tinubu should be there, when they finish with him, bubu will be added to his last name..

Racoon:
Oshiomole thinks that party/national politics demands the tourism and confrontational approach of his labour days.Even the late Pa Micheal Imodu & past labour leaders gone past will be turning in their graves now.

To think that this is the same Adams Oshiomole that fought the tyranny of OBJ days only for him to get into position to become worst tells a lot about the creation called man.Well to know the true worth of a man, give him women, money and power.

PDP agents will always lament

helinues:
Trying time? After winning how many elections?

You did not read where sagay mentioned the states lost under the same Oshiomole?

What a foolish comment emanating from tot faculty of fools. No governor need to plan to remove Oshomole, if that's what they desire they should go ahead. When Tinubu an individual chose to remove Oyegun pathetic SM apologist were no where to give us insight of anyone's foolish imagination or intentions. He was removed n the chapter got close. No fool was telling those more intelligent than his father to be reasoning governors connivance 2 remove the chairman.

nairavsdollars:
You people just rush to type trash just to make FTC. Are you not aware the governors are plotting his removal and General Buhari is not willing to help him?

nairavsdollars:
The real governors in the party like El Rufai, Obaseki want him out.

U call obaseki the real governor in apc?

So other APC governors like Gandollars and co are fake?

Wonderment....

nairavsdollars:
https://www.independent.ng/odds-against-oshiomhole-as-apc-chair/

How did you collect to publish this gabbage

Racoon:
Oshiomole thinks that party/national politics demands the tourism and confrontational approach of his labour days.Even the late Pa Micheal Imodu & past labour leaders gone past will be turning in their graves now.

To think that this is the same Adams Oshiomole that fought the tyranny of OBJ days only for him to get into position to become worst tells a lot about the creation called man.Well to know the true worth of a man, give him women, money and power.

have u insulted pmb today?

aimuan:
You did not read where sagay mentioned the states lost under the same Oshiomole?

How did sagay's wisdom help apc in Delta?
If you are responsible for nothing, talk is very cheap.
How can sagay who's so scared of saying anything negative about tinubu be taken seriously?

helinues:
Trying time? After winning how many elections?

No sir,its after rigging how many elections

itsene:
How did sagay's wisdom help apc in Delta?
If you are responsible for nothing, talk is very cheap.
How can sagay who's so scared of saying anything negative about tinubu be taken seriously?

This is not about sagay,its about if what he said is true. The states he mentioned did APC actually lost them under Oshiomole or not? That's the question.

This soap opera is very laughable

If you want to know how useless Barcelona would be, remove Messi.
That would be the case of APC if Oshiomole is successfully ousted.
At the moment, the APC needs Oshiomole dogged political lifestyle.
PDP never had it this rough ever since oshiomole arrived.

Removing oshiomole isn't supposed to be any sort of debate as it stands.

nairavsdollars:
You people just rush to type trash just to make FTC. Are you not aware the governors are plotting his removal and General Buhari is not willing to help him?

Lol.
In your dreams?
We know that Fayemi and El rufai are already eyeing 2023 and they know that Oshiomole will stop them and that is why they are fighting him.
Tinubu and Buhari also know this

Racoon:
Oshiomole thinks that party/national politics demands the tourism and confrontational approach of his labour days.Even the late Pa Micheal Imodu & past labour leaders gone past will be turning in their graves now.

To think that this is the same Adams Oshiomole that fought the tyranny of OBJ days only for him to get into position to become worst tells a lot about the creation called man.Well to know the true worth of a man, give him women, money and power.

Oahomole has led APC to promise land.

Any attempt to remove him APC will crash.

Let's bet

ernieboy:
the greatest victory apc ever won( winning the presidency from a sitting president in the opposition party) was not under his leadership, yet when the powers that be decided that oyegun was no longer relevant to them, they got rid of him, oshiomole is still chairman because the power brokers in apc still find him useful, the moment they no longer need him he is a goner, and as for those states apc won, even if oshiomole was not the apc chairman apc would have still won those states.

Tinubu got him there against the popular Tom ikimi.

They don't want to lose the only state in south-south I.e Edo

Bayelsa is in South-east

Call a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

able20:
No be to win be the issue, dem say Oshobaba dey talk and behave anyhow like Agbero. They want someone presentable.

OK, someone wey dey presentable like Secondus but he's losing election home and away, well human being are insatiable.

able20:
No be to win be the issue, dem say Oshobaba dey talk and behave anyhow like Agbero. They want someone presentable.

presentable like secondus and loosing elections abi

Hmmmm