Tinubu: Oshiomhole’s Enemies Are Driven By 2023 Virus

All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has come out hard against those championing the removal of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the party saying they were driven by the 2023 virus.

Tinubu in a statement he issued on Sunday said they were also distracting the Muhammadu Buhari administration as he observed that the National Executive Committee, NEC meeting called by the deputy national secretary was illegal.

Tinubu is known to be the one of the powerful forces supportive of Oshiomhole and it has been claimed that potential rivals of Tinubu’s for the 2023 presidential ticket are those behind the move to get Oshiomhole out.

It has been suggested that Oshiomhole’s antagonists believe that he would be biased towards Tinubu in the run-up to the 2023 contest and hence the need to get him out of office.

Tinubu in the statement said:

“In a broader context, those afflicted with the 2023 virus do a grave disservice to President Buhari and his administration. They should be trying their best to help the president. Instead of seeing President Buhari as our present leader and commander-in-chief, their sole contemplation is upon his eventual exit,” he said.

“Yet, not even a full year has passed since his second inaugural. How can they be committed to helping him realise his mandate when the fullness of their gaze is affixed to seizing this very mandate for themselves?”

“While Corona has been presently contained in Nigeria, we must be alert to another sickness that seems rampant within a certain segment of society. That sickness is old Ambition-virus 2023. This illness afflicts many in the political class along with their allies in the media,” he said.

“The plotters launched their attack solely because they perceive the chairman as an obstacle to their 2023 ambitions. People went to court knowing full well the party constitution prohibits such action because these people had not yet exhausted all internal disciplinary procedures.

“We even had a national deputy secretary improperly call for a NEC meeting on the basis that he believed himself the acting national chairman. Clearly, this man would not have summoned the temerity to make such a move had he not been instigated by powerful individuals who he thought would reward or, at least, protect him for committing the wrongful act.

“Those engaged in these manoeuvres see themselves as clever or cunning. They do so because they only understand the mean craft of political intrigue. They have yet to understand the value and long-term utility of democratic governance.

“Thus, they embark on the strangest of quest. They would rather dismantle and weaken the institutional core of their party just to gain control of that weakened edifice in order to pilfer the party nomination, which they crave. This is more than sad,” he said.

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