ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS ‘SUSPENDS’ NATIONALCHAIRMAN, ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE
“Consequent on the development, the State Executive Committee has adopted the vote of no confidence passed on him and the subsisting suspension order from the organs of the party in the state”, the statement said
The Government House statement quoted the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Anselm Ojezua, and the party’s Assistant State Secretary, Ikuenobe Anthony, to have said in a statement.
“Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is the one behind the crisis in Edo APC. We have passed a vote of no confidence on him and he stands suspended from the party. We don’t want what happened in Zamfara State or other parts of the country to happen in Edo State,”
The reaction of the suspended National Chairman of the ruling party, could not be gotten as at the time of filing this report, but the latest development according to political sources further revealed the extent of damage in the relationship between the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and Adams Oshiomhole.
Penpushing also reports that, the duo have been locked in an epic political fight that many fear may affect the ALL Progressives Congress (APC’s) political fortunes in the next Governorship election in the State.
Meanwhile, as at the time of this report, more than 10 lawmakers-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly who are loyal to Oshiomhole have fled the State to Abuja for fear of their safety, after they were schemed out of the inauguration of the Assembly.