APC: Timing Frustrates Five Groups Pushing Oshiomhole’s Exit

By Emmanuel Aziken

The pressure to ease Adams Oshiomhole out of office has gotten to a stalemate with the various forces asking for his exit as chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC apparently not able to form a synergy to achieve their common purpose.

At least five different sets of party stakeholders according to GWG findings are pushing for Oshiomhole’s exit as national chairman of the party.

Among them are the mainstream of the party in his native Edo State as led by Governor Godwin Obaseki and the structure of the party behind him.

The structure aligned to Governor Obaseki believes that with Oshiomhole as national chairman that the governor cannot get the opportunity of a level playing field in the primaries.

While the Obaseki crowd claims to be on the ground in the state, the group is also careful to observe that the office of the national chairman could influence the outcome of the primaries.

Another set of stakeholders who also want Oshiomhole out are those interested in the party’s 2023 ticket. Though Oshiomhole has not come out to show any inclination towards any of the potential aspirants, a significant proportion of 2023 interest groups believe that Oshiomhole is committed towards Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and are as such wary of allowing him to continue as national chairman.

A majority of the party’s governors are also believed to be interested in exiting the national chairman as they desire someone in that office who they can control.

Another set of interest group interested in forcing out Oshiomhole as national chairman is the bloc of some former governors and their allies who lost out during the last General Election.

This set of interest group is bidding for vengeance as they believe that Oshiomhole’s interventions ahead of the last General Election derailed part of their political aspirations. This set of party stakeholders are found across the country and particularly in Ogun, Imo, Enugu, Zamfara, among others. This group is also believed to be working on judicial mechanisms that could force Oshiomhole out of office.

Another set of party stakeholders from the South-South also want Oshiomhole out on account of the fact that his emergence as national chairman has dwarfed their ascendance within the party in the zone and in the country. However, this group of party activists is strongly being fought back by Oshiomhole’s supporters in the region.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has particularly led the group of senior party members from the zone who have given strong backing to Oshiomhole.

While many of those against him agree that Oshiomhole should go, however, the various stakeholders seem not to have found a common frequency in the timing.

Whereas party stakeholders aligned to Obaseki in Edo State want Oshiomhole out immediately, the 2023 presidential candidates seem to be buying time believing that they can suffer him for a while.

“That is the predicament for the anti-Oshiomhole coalition. We want him out but the problem is that we don’t seem to have agreed on the timing,” a high ranking party stakeholder inclined to one of the anti-Oshiomhole groups told GWG.

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