Ahmed Wambai, the immediate past national vice-chairman
(north-central) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Adams Oshiomhole,
suspended chairman of the party gave N1 billion to any state they desired to
win.
Wambai described Oshiomhole as a leader who wanted the best
for the party. But he said some APC governors ganged up to frustrate him out of
office.
In an interview with The Sun, Wambai said Oshiomhole as
chairman did not collect money from governors to run the party, instead he
helped the party generate its own income.
“In the history of political parties, Oshiomhole remains the only chairman that governors did not contribute money to the party purse under him. No governor contributed to the running of the party under Oshiomhole. We did that so that the party could be independent,” he said.
“We never go cap in hand to any ministry for contract or
patronages for the survival of the party. Oshiomhole was the only person that
gave N20 million and N10 million contributions to all the senators and house of
representatives candidates during the election.
“He was the only person that gave some governorship
candidates of some states we desired to win like Imo, Kwara, Gombe and Zamfara
N1 billion each, Benue, about N700 million. We did all these from the purse of
the party. In the history of political parties, no one has done that. Ask me
the source of the money, it was through the sale of our nomination forms. We
deliberately raised the price of governorship nomination form to N22 million to
reduce controversy, conflict and unnecessary competition.
“We wanted to stop some unserious persons from picking the
form. We even refunded the money of those that lost the primaries. Oshiomhole
has never been dictated to by Mr President, the governors or the Ministers.
That is the ideal way a party should run as enshrined in the constitution of
the party.”
Wambai said some APC governors are against the suspended
chairman because of the 2023 election — as some of them are nursing ambition to
run for president.
He said it was because of their ambition that they deceived
President Muhammadu Buhari about Oshiomhole.
“On several instances, they had wanted the Oshiomhole-led
NWC to be dissolved but Mr President refused. But they used everything at their
disposal in their desperation to sack us. We have left the party, let them run
it, let them produce the president in 2023,” he said.
He added that there would be problems if these same people
come against Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the party, rumoured to be
planning to contest for president.
Am a card carrying member of Apc, but with the way some top Apc members are turning against Adams Oshiomole as their political rival will certainly dismantle our party, and we strongly condemned the role played against the Edo branch of the party by the Apc supposed campaign committee in the just losed Edo Governorship Election; if not corrected; we the edo state wing of the party are definitely going to vote against the party comes 2023 presidential election by God's grace.
ReplyDeleteOshiomole was disgraced, see when God lift you don't ever think is because of your power ,some people should learn from oshiomole mistake his now a politically buried in edo state and Nigeria at large to God be the glory
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