The immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, has said that it did not matter that he did not complete his tenure
as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He stated this on Monday during the party’s enlarged
leaders’ meeting across Edo North Senatorial District of the state, held in
Auchi.
Oshiomhole had to step aside as national chairman of the
party, following a law suit that affirmed his removal as a member of the party
in his ward.
He, however, said that what mattered was that he occupied the office of the national chairman of the party, for which he said he remained thankful to God for.
“I have every reason to be grateful to God for His grace
upon me. It is on record that I did not only do 8 years as governor, but the
party also worked hard to have my successor elected on the platform. It does
not matter what happened thereafter.
“I also was privileged to become the national chairman of
our party and it does not matter even if I had spent just two days in that
office. All that matters is that I occupied the office and it is a history that
cannot be changed and for which I am grateful to God.
“It is for this reason that I have an obligation to continue
to maintain and sustain the ladder which by the help of other people I used to
climb up, so that others too can take advantage of that ladder to even climb
higher than I did,” he said.
Commenting on members of the party who were elected to the
State House of Assembly, but were yet to be inaugurated, Oshiomhole thanked
them for keeping their faith, noting that even though they committed no sin,
they were being denied their right to be sworn-in to represent their
constituents.
He, however, said he believed that God would deliver justice
to them in His own way and at His own determined time.
Oshiomhole thanked the leaders for remaining steadfast
inspite of sponsored negative stories against some of them, even as he saluted
the foot soldiers for their trust and confidence and sacrifices in and for the
party.
“Some resigned from their positions based on principles,
some resisted the temptations to betray the party for monetary gains, while
others were sacked or illegally suspended from their elected positions,” he
noted.
The former state governor who urged the party members across
the senatorial zone to be proud of themselves, disclosed that no projects were
ongoing in Edo North, apart from constituency projects being done by APC
legislators in the National Assembly and those influenced by Minister of State
for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba.
He noted that since 2012, the party has not lost any
position from House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senate, not
because the people elected were perfect, but “because our people were determined,
based on party discipline, that we must vote for the party’s candidates at all
times.”
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