Adams Oshiomhole names three persons that plotted his removal as APC National Chairman

Adams Oshiomhole, a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has disclosed how Salihu Lukman, a former national vice chairman of the party’s North-West division, and Kayode Fayemi, the former governors of Ekiti and Ogun States, respectively, plotted to remove him as the party’s head.

Oshiomhole specifically addressed his conflict with the governors elected based on the ruling party’s policy.

He revealed this information on Tuesday in Abuja during the book launch of Salihu Lukman’s “APC and Transition Politics.”

According to Oshiomhole, the author and a few governors led the effort that resulted in his “illegal” expulsion from office.

He said the governors used every kind of unlawful tactics to get rid of him when he made efforts to enshrine party supremacy.

“Lukman wrote several letters, dismissing my leadership without calling me. When you ride on the back of a tiger, there is only one destination.

“Lukman was appointed undemocratically by the governors’ forum. I was not consulted— I was a governor. We were told this is the new DG of the APC governors forum.

“I wrote to the governors for a meeting. The governors said no, I should come to Imo House, not the APC office. He [Lukman] was there [where they were holding the meeting]. He did not see anything wrong with that,” Oshiomhole said.

“It felt as though I was in a military barrack,” Oshiomhole said while recalling the atmosphere at the meeting with the governors.

He said following the diatribes from the governors, he responded “None of you can lecture me about the power of a governor. Because I have been governor twice. Eight years uninterrupted.

“At a point, I told Fayemi, ‘You did a resit. You were elected and by the second term, you lost. That means you failed’. I did not do a resit, and you are lecturing me about power. I can mention some of them.

“The man in Ogun State, he told me if not for the president, he would have left the party. Some of them told me ‘You are working for your paymaster in Lagos. Your paymaster in Bourdillon.’”

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