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Momoh: Obaseki, Not Oshiomhole Is Leader Of Edo APC

December 12, 2019 7:15 am

Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of Information on Wednesday said Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has no business interfering in the affairs of the party in Edo State.

Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Momoh, a former national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) said the task of organising and funding the party is the sole responsibility of Governor Godwin Obaseki, who by the party’s constitution is the leader of the APC in Edo State.

According to him, going by APC’s constitution, the governor is the chief executive officer …

Oshiomhole Absent As Buhari, APC Governors Meet In Aso Rock

December 7, 2019 5:05 am

The  National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole was conspicuously absent Thursday, when President Muhammadu Buhari met with Progressives Governors in the State House, Abuja.

The two-hour meeting held at the conference room of President Buhari, had in attendance Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, chairman of progressive forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Bagudu, governors of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, Borno, Babagana Zulum, Edo, Godwin Obaseki, Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, Gombe, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, Nasarawa, Abdullahi Sule, Plateau, Simon Lalong, Osun, Gboyega Oyetola, Jigawa, Badaru Abubakar and the deputy governors of Niger and Kogi.

They governors …

2020: APC Won’t Lose Edo – Oshiomhole Declares

December 6, 2019 1:17 pm

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday declared that the ruling party is not at risk of losing in Edo State in 2020 governorship elections in the state.

Oshiomhole made the declaration while briefing State House correspondents on the purpose of the meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with the 36 states party chairmen at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to him, those  in the opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that could serve as stumbling block in the state have joined their ancestors.

Oshiomhole insisted that in defense of the party, had accepted the APC …

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Oshiomhole Regrets Betrayal By Shaibu, Others

November 19, 2019 12:41 pm

Immediate past governor of Edo State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed disgust over the crisis that has engulfed the party in his state, lamenting that the state deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu and some other persons from his local government betrayed him after doing so much to help them grow politically.

 

Recall that Shaibu was at the centre of a recent altercation between youths in Iyamho and suspected thugs allegedly brought to the community during the recent convocation ceremony of Edo University, Iyamho, in Etsako West local government area.
But …

Oshiomhole Didn’t Pay Salaries, Pensions In 18 LGs – SSG

November 19, 2019 2:56 am
Secretary to Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie, has said All Progressives Congress (APC), National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, left behind unpaid salaries of workers in 18 local government areas when he was governor. 

Ogie said this during a visit by a team of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College Study Tour Course 42 at Government House, in Benin.

Representing Governor Godwin Obaseki, he said at the time Oshiomhole left office as governor, the 18 councils could also not pay pensions, adding that the reasons the local governments are indebted is due to the collection of taxes by non-state actors, who …

Bayelsa Guber Most Peaceful Since 1999 – Oshiomhole

November 18, 2019 5:10 pm

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has described the November 16th guber elections in Bayelsa State as the most peaceful since 1999.

Oshiomhole said this after he was joined by Chairman All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaign Mohammed Badaru, Governor of Kebbi State and Chairman APC Governors Forum, Atiku Bagudu and the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Silver, to present Bayelsa Governor-elect David Lyon to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, Abuja.

Lyon, staged an upset to defeat the PDP’s Duoye Diri in the Bayelsa governorship election.

The party chairman while commending President …

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Suspension Of Oshiomhole, Obaseki, Unknown To SS APC

November 16, 2019 3:09 am

Peace appears to be in the horizon for the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the South-south zonal chapter of the party has declared that the purported suspension of some members of the party were not binding on them.

National Vice Chairman South-south of the APC, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, who commented on the crisis yesterday while speaking to journalists said as far as the zone was concerned, no member of the APC had been suspended.

According to Eta, the purported suspension of some big time politician and others by the warring factions were unconstitutional, null, void, …

Position On Oshiomhole Personal, Says APC Govs’ DG

November 15, 2019 6:23 am

The Director General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), a club of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has clarified that he did not speak on behalf of the governors when he asked the National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole to convene the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party or resign from office, stressing that he only expressed the sentiment of APC members.

However, despite the clarification, the forum of state chairmen of the APC has called on the governors of the party to sack the director general of its forum, accusing him of causing disaffection within …

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Bayelsa Airport Not Flooded As Alleged By Oshiomhole

November 9, 2019 4:02 am
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has described allegation that the state-owned International Cargo Airport built by his administration was flooded as a deliberate lie by the All Progressive Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
The governor also denied the N100billion running cost of the airport project as alleged, saying the total cost was N70billion.Dickson, who conducted journalists round the airport facilities, including the 3.5 kilometres runway, yesterday, explained that the full commencement of operation at the airport was being delayed by regulatory agencies, who were yet give approval for it to be used.

He also put the expended acquisition of

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In Edo: Obaseki And Oshiomhole Supporters Fight Dirty

In Edo: Obaseki And Oshiomhole Supporters Fight Dirty

October 14, 2019 5:35 am

The crisis rocking the Edo chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of next year’s governorship election in the state at the weekend deepened, as both supporters of Governor Godwin Obaseki and the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, alleged physical attacks.

While sympathisers of the latter accused those of the former of attacking the Benin GRA home of the ex-labour leader, the Chief of Staff to governor Obaseki, Taiwo Akerele, on the other hand, alleged that he was attacked by an APC chieftain loyal to Oshiomhole in a hotel on Friday while meeting with some foreign investors within …

Boycott S.African businesses, Oshiomhole urges Nigerians

September 6, 2019 1:07 am
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The chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday urged the Federal Government and the citizens to take strong measures against telecommunications giant, MTN, and other firms owned by South Africans in Nigeria.He told reporters at the end of a closed-door meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja that Nigerians should boycott MTN for 30 days as a signal to South African authorities that they are fed up with xenophobic attacks. “Happily, we have indigenous networks like GLO, …
Nigerians caused rift between Obaseki and I – Oshiomhole

Nigerians caused rift between Obaseki and I – Oshiomhole

August 13, 2019 10:50 pm

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has blamed the Nigerian media for the alleged rift between himself and Gov. Godwin Obaseki, describing his successor as his brother.

Oshiomhole spoke when he received Obaseki, who led members of his cabinet to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir festival with his former boss, at his Iyamoh residence in Estako West Local Government Government Area of Edo.

Speaking to journalists after a closed-door meeting which lasted for about an hour, Oshiomhole said the meeting was not unusual as he was in constant touch with  Obaseki.

According to Oshiomhole, “from time to time, …

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