Adams Oshiomhole,
national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is more
worried about what he would be remembered for than on how long he spent as
chairman of the ruling party.
Oshiomhole said this
after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa on
Thursday.
A federal high court
in Abuja had ordered his suspension on Wednesday and the police took over the
APC secretariat after the ruling.
But in a confusing
manner, a federal high court in Kano, on Thursday, issued an interim order
halting the suspension of Oshiomhole.
In law, a court of
co-equal jurisdiction cannot review the judgment of another.
Speaking about the
attempt to get him “out at all cost”, Oshiomhole said it is possible that he
has made mistakes but there is no human being who is perfect.
“You see in whatever
you do, those who want to fight you will fight you. But I know that my tenure
will be defined my God not by man. And I worry more about what I will be
remembered for when I was chairman rather than how long I was chairman,” he
said.
“I am convinced that
I have done my very best, mistakes would have been made and I want to see the
one person who will say he has never made mistakes. But if there are mistakes
of the head, we have the capacity to correct mistakes of the head. But I know I
have not set out to make the mistakes of the heart. It is just that by the
reason of the position that I occupy, it is not quite appropriate for me to
join at this hour in explaining who is responsible for the losses that people
point out and they want to heap on my head.”
Oshiomhole said
despite some notable achievements of the party under him, his opponents still
believe that he has not done enough.
“Even when we have
lost some states, I ask you did you see one newspaper that congratulated
Oshiomhole when we won in Kogi, Bayelsa before the court took it back?” he
asked.
“But look at the
narrative, once it goes the other way, if we succeed it is not me, if we lose
it is me. I know even in corporate organisations, we have what we call profit
and loss account, you have profit and loss that is what is called balance
sheet. If you look at my balance sheet, I know I am not the best chairman in
the world but I believe I have given my all even at the expense of my family
well-being and family life to support my party, to ensure that I work sometimes
almost 20 hours a day to ensure that I provide the desired leadership that APC
needs.”
He also accused
Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, of turning around to hurt him despite
playing a key role in his emergence.
Obaseki and
Oshiomhole have been having a running battle since the governor indicated
interest in another term.
“Let me also say
that those behind this plot, the hands you saw which includes as you saw
yesterday the Edo state governor and his people jubilating but that is the
irony of life. You helped in giving birth to a child and the child looks for
cutlass to chop off your neck. It has happened in history, it has happened in
this country so I won’t be only person,” he said.
“I am proud to say
that I have done my best not only when I was a governor, I have done my best as
chairman of this party. I have worked not only along members of the party and
with support of the good people of Nigeria for the president to be re-elected,
for us to have majority in the two chambers of the national assembly.
“Those fighting me
couldn’t deliver even a counselor of a local government in their unit. And they
just feel that if they cannot give me orders then they must do everything to
embarrass my person, but I believe that he who God stands with no man born of a
woman can bring him down.
“I can’t say more
than that. Those who are parading themselves, holding meetings at night, my
prayer to my God is that let them meet at night. What they do at night will be
destroyed by light in the day time. I don’t go for night business I do day
business. They know themselves, they know me and I know them.
“And I am proud of
the support that I am getting from the ordinary majority of our party and even
majority of our leaders.”
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