The web of crisis surrounding
the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday got more entangled as the Inspector General of
Police, Mohammed Adamu, warned the former labour leader against showing up at
the party’s national secretariat or moving near any formal function of the
party in an official capacity.
The IGP had given Oshiomhole the stern warning in obeisance to an order of an
Abuja High Court, which gave an interlocutory order restraining Oshiomhole from
parading himself as the National Chairman of the party.
Though
the restricted National Chairman had obtained another order from a Federal High
Court in Kano State, which restored him as the APC National Chairman, the party
insisted on obeying the first court verdict, since the courts are of coordinate
jurisdiction.
The two court orders had been
a source of confusion as it had divided the National Working Committee and
other chieftains of the party. The IGP met with the different factions of the
NWC at the Force Headquarters, where he handed down the warning.
But
as the meeting with the IGP was going on, security was beefed up at the
National Secretariat of the APC on Blantyre Street in Wuse 2. Saturday
Telegraph noticed men of the Nigerian Police Force and Department of State
Services (DSS) patrolling the area under the directive of the FCT Director of
DSS, who was seen with about five men of the Service on a motorbike. Speaking
with Saturday Telegraph, a member of the National Working Committee (NWC), who
preferred anonymity said the chairman’s fate had “been sealed as he was asked
by the IGP not to appear at the party secretariat in an official capacity”.
The
NWC member also explained that the Acting National Secretariat, Hon. Victor
Giadom, has been asked to oversee the party until the leadership announces an
acting National Chairman. “We have just finished the meeting now and the IGP
asked Oshiomhole not to come near the party again. Giadom would be overseeing
the party pending when the leaders will announce an acting chairman. And it
won’t be long that the party would announce an Acting National Chairman.”
However,
some personal staff of Oshiomohle were prevented from gaining access to the
party secretariat. The staff, who came with two Toyota Jeep cars were asked to
go back from the entrance gate of the party.
From
7am when staff reported for work till 8pm when they left, the APC National
Secretariat that is located on Blantyre Street was kept locked. Only a few
security men where seen going on and out of the secretariat. Even after the
Oshiomhole staff identify themselves, they were still denied access to gain
entrance into the secretariat. They were later asked to move away from the gate
of the secretariats.
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