Oshiomhole Cannot be Victim of APC Crisis - Idahosa

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole

A former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Edo State, Mr. Charles Idahosa, has said that National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, could not be the victim of the crisis rocking the party across the country.

Idahosa urged Oshiomhole to stop playing the victim card when he (Oshiomhole) was the cause of the crisis.

Reacting to Oshiomhole’s call on Nigerians to remember him in their prayers over his fate in the party at a meeting with some party members in Edo, Idahosa said it was an attempt to hoodwink Nigerians into thinking that he was being victimised.

Idahosa, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to Oshiomhole who spoke with reporters in Bénin City, said the APC has lost grounds on account of the Oshiomhole’s combative stance in running its affairs.

He reiterated his earlier call on Oshiomhole to resign instead of calling for prayers, for a more temperate party-man to pilot the affairs of the party for the benefit of party members and Nigerians.

According to Idahosa, “Comrade Oshiomhole should spare us the drama of asking Nigerians to pray for him over the APC crisis. It is just a case of barefaced deceit, which is second nature to him. It is public knowledge that he is the cause of the crisis in the party, at the national and state levels.

“At the national level, the state governors are inching very close to removing him on account of his high-handedness, sabotage and tyrannical approach to running the party. The APC is in more crisis than Oshiomhole met it; the party has lost grounds on account of the national chairman’s combative stance in running its affairs.

“In Edo State, he is fighting dirty to entrench himself as a godfather, which he had in the past stood against. So, the pity-party is needless. We know him for who he is and his intentions are as clear as daylight.”