The order by Justice Danlami Senchi of the FCT High Court suspending Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) has undoubtedly altered the political permutations and calculations in Edo State ahead of the gubernatorial election billed to hold later in the year. It would be recalled that a battle line had been drawn between the suspended national chairman Oshiomhole and Governor Godwin Obaseki, with both camps employing different ploys to assert their supremacy and who would emerge victor in deciding who emerges the party’s flagbearer in the upcoming election.
It was at the crescendo of the intrigues that Obaseki pulled the masterstroke of getting Oshiomhole suspended from the party at the ward, local government and state levels, a development that formed the basis for Justice Senchi’s order yesterday.
The Edo State chapter of APC had suspended Oshiomhole “for his role in trying to disintegrate the party in the state.” Governor Obaseki later restated that the national chairman would remain suspended from the party so long as he was not remorseful and apologetic for his actions that had caused the party great problem in the state.
