Protesters, yesterday, storm the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in solidarity with the embattled National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
The protesters, under the aegis of Federation of Buhari Support Groups, were drawn from various platforms including the Buhari-Osinbajo Movement Group, Love to Love Foundation for Buhari 2019, Women for Buhari and Osinbajo, Forum of Buhari Support Groups, Niger Delta Women for Buhari, the Buhari-Osinbajo Destiny Group and the Farmers Congress for Buhari.
They fingered Gov. Akeredolu as the arrowhead of a new resistance desperate to destroy the APC and truncate President Buhari’s re-election bid.
Leaders of the federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Sikiru, and Gbenga Bojuwomi said they had in their previous submissions raised the alarm on several occasions that “Gov. Akeredolu of Ondo State is determined to fight three personalities in APC, President Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Oshiomhole.”
In an address jointly signed by the duo and read during the protest, the federation said; “Mr. Governor of Ondo State is not happy with all the strategies by APC NWC to reunite the party with a view to bringing democracy to the door-steps of party members by the introduction and adoption of direct primaries for all elections.”
“As it is in Ondo State, President Muhammadu Buhari cannot get 10% votes in the 2019 general elections due to the de-marketing policies of Gov. Akeredolu. Instead of this accidental governor to focus on projects that will better the lots of good people of Ondo State, he is busy running from North to South collecting signatures of governors and party chairmen of various states to pass a vote of no confidence on Adams Oshiomhole. More so, Governor Akeredolu is not contesting in any election this time around. It clearly shows that Gov. Akeredolu does not care about the success or victory of APC in all elections in 2019.
“It was revealed that Gov. Akeredolu is the leader of the new conservative movement within the APC coupled with the assistance of Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State; Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Gov. Bindow of Adamawa State.
“It is evident that Gov. Akeredolu is purely a mole in APC, it would be recalled that he worked alongside with Gov Fayemi and Gov Amosun against the party’s choice in Osun election. Right now, he has instructed all his loyalists and cabinet members in Ondo State to work against all party candidates in Ondo during the general elections.
“We believe in the leadership of the party ably led by Adams Oshiomhole and his determination to reposition the party for a landslide victory in the forthcoming elections. Our party is greater than any individual or group, so let us come together and face our common goal of remaining the most efficient and trusted party in our clime”, they counselled.
Meanwhile, Gov Akeredolu has reacted against the allegations through his Commissioner for Information, Mr. Yemi Olowolabi. He said; “We are talking about election and election is something that is measurable, and if you are talking about president winning, it is what happens on the ground that will go a long way to show where we stand.
“At the end of the day election is in February, and at the end of the day we will know who is supporting Buhari or not.
“Anybody can make any claim but the election is what is done on the ground, and it is not something abstract, people will go to the field, and a winner will emerge.
“Those who make such frivolous allegations are just afraid of their own shadow.
“My governor is firmly in support of Buhari; our governor is a loyal party man regardless of what some may be saying. In fact, only yesterday he instructed us to go back to our constituencies to go and sell Buhari.”
Dismissing the insinuations of a conspiracy with the conservative class to derail a second term for the president, he said: “If you know his antecedents, he has always been with the progressives, and this is not the time to turn back. We are not focused on what they are doing and the sponsored protests, but focused on what we are doing for our people and our country.”
