They see me as a threat because of 2023 - Oshiomhole cries out

- Adams Oshiomhole has broken his silence on the plot to remove him as the APC national chairman

- The APC chairman blamed his recent travails on chieftains of the party aiming for the presidential seat in 2023

- Oshiomhole accused those behind the attempts to remove him from office of being weak politicians

The embattled national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has said that those behind the plot to remove him from office are those gunning for the 2023 presidential seat.

According to The Nation, Oshiomhole disclosed this to reporters on Thursday, March 5, after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja, amid the present crisis rocking the ruling party.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state who also paid a visit to the president at the Villa that same day as Oshiomhole did not brief reporters after his visit, however, it was alleged that he visited Buhari on why the APC chairman should be removed from office.

The recently suspended APC chairman described those behind his ordeal as politicians who are weak and not grassroot like him. He said such party members can't boast of winning a councillorship seat much less make a claim to a leadership position in APC.

Oshiomhole said: “I’m 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, I also worked hard to deliver my unit, my ward, I worked hard to deliver my local government, I worked hard to deliver my federal constituency three of them in my senatorial zone, I also worked hard to deliver my senatorial district.

“Those fighting me 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 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.

“They are the ones who will plot how do we get rid of him because they want to be president in 2023 even when their hold on their state at the moment is doubtful If they were to go for referendum in terms of their approval rating."

Oshiomhole also speaking on why he met with the president said: “I thought that I had a duty to brief Mr. President as the overall leader of our party about this development. Incidentally, when I requested for the audience yesterday I wasn’t sure what has happened today will happen. But I had a duty to inform him about the court order."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that some operatives of the Nigerian police on Wednesday, March 4, took over the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja.

This is following a court order suspending the embattled APC chairman pending the determination of a suit asking for his removal. The police stormed the secretariat at about 5 pm shortly after the legal department of the party was served the court order suspending Oshiomhole.

In a related development, Oshiomhole vowed to give a tough fight against those who he termed enemies within. The embattled APC chairman has found himself in the face of storms after falling down the pecking order with some top hierarchy members of the ruling party.

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