Why I’m The Target Of Some APC Leaders – Oshiomhole
BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiohmole, says his achievements in office remain the main challenge for those that want him out of the way for their selfish interests.
Oshiohmole, who stated this against the backdrop of massing agitation for his resignation from some APC members, said that only a fruit yielding tree gets stoned most of the times.
This is even as he accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring the so-called 3rd term agenda just to create confusion in the polity.
He told State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday that he has more to his credit as APC National Chairman.
According him; “You hardly see people throwing stone at a dry palm tree. But if you see a mango tree when it is in its season, people throw stones at it when passing.
“I think, that is my lot, but my report card is also very clear. You my comrades (media) should also help in interrogating the process, how the performance of a National Working Committee of a political part should be evaluated? I think the evaluation should start mostly from how many elections did you lose, or lost.
“Last week, we saw the British Labour Party Leader saying that he accepts responsibility for the crushing defeat the Labour Party suffered under his leadership. He offered in principle, having accepted responsibility, that he will not lead the Party in the next election. So, he is going to resign because under his leadership, the party was rejected by the British electorate.
“In my own case, and I challenge anyone to say that any of these things are not true. We the executive members of the party were sworn in on June 3, 2018, at about 6 p.m. Two weeks later, we went to Ekiti to contest election against a PDP incumbent governor Fayose and we won. Kayode Fayemi today is the governor of that state.
“Few months later, we went to Osun State, we contested a by-election, we won and we had the Osun State governor elected for his first term. Then we went for the national elections, you know all the tensions in the country at the time.
“The gap between President Buhari and the former candidate of the PDP Abubakar Atiku was about four million voters. The one between President Buhari and former President Jonathan in 2015 was about three million.
“So under my leadership this President has more votes than the first runner-up. We would like to claim credit for that because if it went the other way, we would have been crucified,’’ Oshiomhole opined.
