Fresh trouble for Oshiomhole
Posted by News Express | 30 December 2019 | 2,426 times
•Embattled APC National Chairman Oshiomhole
Few hours to the New
Year, more troubles seem to be coming the way of the embattled National
Chairman of the APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole.
A chieftain of the APC,
Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, vowed on Sunday, that he would stage “a massive
Oshiomhole Must Go protest nationwide” early in the New Year.
“I’m championing a
massive Oshiomhole Must Go protest which will kick off early next year with thousands
of corroborators across the 36 states of the federation,” Adjoto, told party
members at his country home at Ikakumo, in Igarraland in Edo State.
“The protest will be
unabated until Oshiomhole honourably resigns before he buries the APC,’’ said
Adjoto, the immediate past speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly.
The APC chieftain, who
is currently the special adviser to Gov. Godwin Obaseki, said he would soon
open “a can of worms that would seal the political fate of Oshiomhole.”
According to him, the
can of worms when opened, will make Edo people to stone the former Edo
governor, who is currently battling his political survival in the ruling APC in
Edo.
“As I promised a few
months ago, I’m vigorously set to open horrible can of worms that will make Edo
people to stone Oshiomhole on the street as we enter the New Year.”
Adjoto, however, did not
disclose the `sins’ of Oshiomhole that would make the masses to rise against
their former two-term governor.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oshiomhole has been pitched in a tense political
battle with Obaseki as the countdown to the governorship election in the state
draws near.
Edo State is scheduled
for governorships polls in August next year, in an election expected to be
characterised by back-stabbing, betrayals and violence.
Adjoto also spoke on the
speculation that Obaseki was planning to defect to the PDP, describing the
speculation as baseless.
“The governor will enjoy
the ‘privilege of first refusal’ during the forthcoming APC governorship
primaries as enjoyed by Oshiomhole in 2012,” he stated.
The former speaker noted
that the APC national chairman was driving himself into “irredeemable political
oblivion because of sheer greed and hypocrisy.”
He stressed that
Oshiomhole had played god severally by hypocritically reversing himself on
principles that fetched him enormous political fortunes.
“Oshiomhole became
governor on the heels of fighting godfatherism and the tenets of one man, one
vote.
“He has now turned
himself into not just a godfather but an untamed emperor, who is fully out to
ruin the gains of democracy.
“He has also at
different fora ridiculed the nation’s judiciary which gave him the ladder to
climb to power,” Adjoto stated.
At the event, the Woman
Leader of the APC, Ward 7 in Akoko-Edo, Mrs Victoria Balogun, described Adjoto
as a grassroots politician with a cult of following.
She lauded Adjoto for
making positive impacts on the lives of the people of his community, assuring
the former speaker that women in Akoko-Edo would support the re-election of
Obaseki. (NAN)
Source: News Express
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