South-south APC NEC members pass vote of confidence on Oshiomhole

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The South-south chapter of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) has thrown its weight behind the leadership of its national chairman,
Adams Oshiomhole.

This formed part of resolutions at a well-attended meeting
of the National Executive Council (NEC) members of the zone in Abuja on Sunday,
March 15, 2020.

In a communiqué signed made available to newsmen in Abuja on
Monday, signed by the deputy Senate president, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, national
vice chairman Hilliard Eta, deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena,
Ho. Peter Akpatason, among other NEC members disassociated themselves from the
emergency NEC meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

The emergency NEC meeting was convened by Victor Giadom.

The meeting comes amid rumours of a plot to remove
Oshiomhole as the party’s national chairman.

According to the South-South members, Gaidom had resigned
his position as a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party
and lacks the power to convene a NEC meeting.

“We agree that the National Chairman of our great
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has done
very well in the administration of the affairs of our great party,” the
communiqué read.

“That under the leadership of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,
we won the just concluded presidential elections, won majority of the seats in
the National Assembly, and also won governorship elections in most states of
the federation.

“That in line with the resolutions reached by the
National Working Committee (NWC) of our party, we dissociate ourselves from the
purported NEC meeting being summoned by Hon. Victor Giadom as he does not have
the constitutional powers to summon NEC meeting.

“That the said Hon. Victor Giadom is not a member of
NWC having resigned his position as deputy national secretary of the Party to
contest elections in Rivers state as deputy governorship candidate in the 2019
general elections.

“That we implore all members of NEC to respect the
decisions of the National Working Committee (NWC) of our party that the
purported NEC meeting summoned by Victor Giadom is illegal and
unconstitutional.

“That we unanimously pass a vote of confidence on our
leader, His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari,for his sterling leadership
of the affairs of our dear country and the National Chairman of our Party, Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole.”

The South-south chapter of the APC blamed the plot to
impeach Oshiomhole on some “agents of destabilisation” within the
party.