Oshiomhole Is Being Mischevous With His Arms Stockpile Comment – PDP

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Oct 21, 2019

The Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State has blasted the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for his wild and miserable fabrications against the PDP in the state.

Oshiomhole had said that the opposition party was piling up arms in the state but PDP has replied instantly.

According to the state Chairman of the PDP, Moses Cleopas, APC and its leader are making up allegations to justify their plan to deploy soldiers to rig the governorship election in the state.

His words, “The people of Bayelsa will resist any attempt by the APC to deploy soldiers to rig the governorship poll.”

Moses urged Nigerians to shun the APC allegation which is coming from a place of mischief.

Is Oshiomhole the trouble maker here?

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole (born 4 April 1952) is a Nigerian politician. He is the current national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) political party. He was the Governor of Edo State, Nigeria on the platform of the Action Congress from November 2008 to November 2016 and he was the president of Nigeria Labour Congress during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was born on 4 April 1952 at Iyamho, near Auchi in Edo State. He was born Muslim but was led to Christianity by his late wife Clara who died of cancer aged 54. He is Catholic and his Christian name is Eric. After his secondary education, he obtained a job with the Arewa Textiles Company, where he was elected union secretary. He became a full-time trade union organizer in 1975.

He then studied at Ruskin College, Oxford in the United Kingdom where he majored in economics and industrial relations. He also attended the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru. In May 2015 he married a young model called Lara Fortes.

In April 2007, Adams Oshiomhole ran for Governor of Edo State under the Action Congress Party, with which his Labour Party had entered a strategic alliance. Oserheimen Osunbor of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was declared the winner. However, the AC contested the election on the basis of various irregularities. On 20 March 2008, an Edo State election tribunal nullified the election of Oserheimen Osunbor and declared Oshiomhole the winner. On 11 November 2008, a federal Appeal Court sitting in Benin City upheld the ruling of the state’s elections petitions tribunal, declaring Oshiomole to be the Governor of Edo State. The decision was based on several voting irregularities.

In 2012, he was elected to a second term, winning the elections in a massive landslide. He ended his tenure on November 12 2016.

On 23 June 2018, Adams Oshiomhole emerged as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria following a voice vote by delegates at the party National convention.