Oshiomole Speaks on Suspension

Few days after the Court of Appeal upheld his suspension, the embattled national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomole, says he has accepted the judgement in good faith.

Oshiomole disclosed this on Wednesday evening while speaking on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.

Mr Oshiomole was first suspended by an Abuja High Court in early March following an application filed by one Oluwole Afolabi, a counsel to one of the aggrieved National Working Committee members.

Mr Afolabi, in his application dated and filed on January 16, outlined the earlier vote of no confidence passed on the national chairman by his primary constituency in Etsako Ward 10 in Edo State.

The suspension was initially lifted after the appellate the court granted a stay of execution of the high court’s order.

Mr Oshiomole, a former labour leader, has been locked in a protracted political tussle with his protege and successor in office, Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Mr Obaseki announced his resignation from the party after he was disqualified from contesting re-election under the APC; a few days before the court affirmed Mr Oshiomole’s suspension.

Both feuding politicians are outside the party structure, at least for now.

Ayooluwa Joshua