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APC REMOVES OSHIOMHOLE’S PICTURES, BANNERS AT PARTY SECRETARIAT


Banners displaying the pictures of the embattled chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the party secretariat in Abuja, have been removed.

The billboard with the picture of President Muhammadu Buahri and Oshiomhole, at the entrance of the party secretariat, has also been replaced. It was replaced on Wednesday night with a billboard displaying only the picture of Buhari.

Other billboards of Oshiomhole on Blantyre Street, where the party secretariat is located, have been removed.

Meanwhile Buhari has given the go-ahead for the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC slated for Tuesday, presidency sources told Daily Trust yesterday.

One of the sources said the meeting was called with the explicit support of President Buhari and that he will attend.

“It (the NEC) has his authorisation. So, the question of whether he will attend is pathological,” the source said.

This is just as the camp of the suspended National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is considering court action to halt the emergency NEC meeting.

The notice for the NEC meeting, which was issued by the acting National Secretary of the party, Chief Victor Giadom has created a crack in the National Working Committee (NWC), with the camp loyal to Oshiomhole against it, while the Giadom group is pushing for it.

Members of the NWC who are against the NEC meeting include Babatunde Ogala Esq (legal adviser), Mallam Lanre Onilu (publicity secretary) and Arc Waziri Bulama (newly appointed secretary yet to be inaugurated).

The party has been without a national chairman since penultimate Wednesday when an Abuja High Court suspended Oshiomhole.

Another court order secured from a Federal High Court sitting in Kano by Oshiomhole has not changed the situation.

A member of the party’s NEC who spoke to our correspondent on anonymity said members of the camp of the suspended national chairman are all out to stop the emergency meeting.

“They are shopping for an interlocutory injunction to stop the NEC. They don’t want the meeting to be held because they fear that Oshiomhole would be removed at the meeting,” he said. Contacted, one of the aides to Oshiomhole told our correspondent, “we are working on something but don’t quote me.”

A chieftain of the party in Edo State loyal to Oshiomhole, Henry Idahiagbon, said the planned NEC meeting was illegal. Meanwhile, at the party’s secretariat in Abuja yesterday, distribution of identity tags for the NEC meeting has commenced. The tags and invitations were distributed by the chief security officer of the party.

Sources said only those with tags would be allowed into the venue of the meeting which is expected to be attended by Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, among other members of the NEC. It was gathered that tags for Oshiomhole and members of the NWC in his camp were not produced. Efforts to speak to National Publicity Secretary Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu on the matter yielded no result as he did not pick his calls.

For his part, the National Vice Chairman South-South, Hilliard Eta said he would not attend the meeting.




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