Buhari In Support Of Calls For Oshiohole’s Resignation?

Embattled National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole

Is President Muhammadu Buhari in tacit support of the calls on the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole to resign?

That is the big question which many political analysts are trying to unravel.

It flows from the fact that not only has the call become common place, it is even coming from individuals and quarters believed to be very close to the president..

The most recent is the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), , Osita Okechukwu  who said Oshiomhole had no need to stay a day longer on the position following allegations of corruption leveled against him, arising from the recent conduct of the party’s primaries.

Okechukwu said they are so weighty, he could be stoned on the streets of Enugu state, should he bother to accompany the president there during the campaigns

Okechukwu, who is also an aggrieved Senatorial aspirant in Enugu state, urged the Department of State Services DSS and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission EFCC to immediately probe the call logs of Oshiomhole in the recent times.

The national chairman was reportedly interrogated by the security agencies early this week before he traveled out of the country

Addressing a press conference at the party national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, Okechukwu said it is imperative that Oshiomhole resigns forthwith to save the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari on the eve of a crucial general election.

“Penultimate week ago, I joined the league of APC moral leaders, faithful and men of good conscience to call on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to honourably resign forthwith the chairmanship of our great party.

In his usual narcissistic disposition, he refused. “Gentlemen of the Press, as the Oshiohmole Must Go wave raged, the Department of State Security Service (DSS) got wind of it. They interrogated him and I patiently waited to read in the social or main media from Comrade Oshiomhole and his spin doctors over his tango with the DSS, neither rebuttal nor denial came from them. “I therefore, once again stridently call on Comrade Oshiomhole to instead of pontificating, grandstanding and running away from the country; to do the needful by honourably resigning the chairmanship of our great party”, he said.

Before now,  presidential aspirants in the party had called on the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole to resign.

According to re[prts, the members of the group, included governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives, state Houses of Assembly aspirants, and they accused Oshiomhole of working for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

This was made known in a statement jointly signed by Alhaji Mumakai-Unagha and Dr SKC Ogbonnia, two presidential aspirants on Wednesday, October 10, 2018.

Last October, a factional group of the APC had taken to the streets of Calabar, demanding Oshiomhole’s resignation.

The group accused him of refusing to recognise the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, as the governorship candidate of the party in the state, despite a court order to that effect.

Some political analysts are of the opinion that these calls were indicative of some subtle backing from above, especially as there has not been any reassurances from the presidency.

Moreover, they reason that the VON could not be openly attacking the leader of the president’s party if the president himself was not in support.