Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), says he has accepted the decision of the party’s
national executive committee (NEC) to dissolve the national working committee
(NWC) which he led.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Saturday,
Oshiomhole said he has also asked his lawyers to withdraw his suit at the
supreme court.
The former Edo governor was challenging a court of appeal order
upholding his suspension him as the national chairman of the party.
The NWC was dissolved by the party’s NEC on Thursday.
“The APC under my chairmanship has done its best and the
results are there. Of course we have now been dissolved and I have accepted
that dissolution in good faith,” he said.
“I’m not going into the question of legality or illegality.
The bottomline is that the president who invited me to lead the party and who
mobilised all the support for my emergence as chairman also presided over the
meeting where the NWC has now been dissolved.
“Mr President graciously invited me to run for the office of
chairmanship of the party in 2018 precisely about two years ago. The president
told me then that if we do not reform the APC, we can as well forget about the
party.
“You know that reforms are challenging and it will entail
taking difficult decisions. Mine has been a life of trouble and I accepted this
and I believe I did my best.
“I’m happy that at the end of the day, 2019 elections have
come and gone thanks to Nigerian people, our president had more votes in 2019
than we had in 2015. We have more members in the senate and house of
representatives.”
Oshiomhole said the party did not manage its victory at the
polls well in 2015 and that was why the country had a deputy senate president
who was in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Unlike 2015 we were not able to manage our victory in the
two chambers such that we had an APC president in the senate and PDP deputy
senate president. This time working hard with my colleagues in the NWC and in
consultation of leaders of our party across board we have the kind of unity
expected in the governing party in the two chambers of the national assembly,”
he said.
“I’m happy that the leadership of the national assembly is
working harmoniously with Mr president.”
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