Police foils anti Oshiomhole protest at APC headquarters

A detachment of the Nigeria Police has foiled a planned protest against the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole by a group called APC Members Coalition Movement.

The anti-Oshiomhole protesters had stormed APC National Secretariat Thursday afternoon but they were first resisted by some Youths believed to be pro-Oshiomhole and tension was mounting.

As violent clash between the two groups was becoming imminent, the security operatives detailed at the APC Secretariat called for reinforcement and in a giffy, trucks loads of armed Police men arrived and condoned off the Secretariat.

Spokesman of the APC Members Coalition Movement, the Anti-Oshiomhole group, Umar Musa told journalists that it was high time Oshiomhole was removed for causing monumental damage to the party.

While insisting that Oshiomhole must go, Musa said, “we are here to express our feelings, to show or tell the whole world that we are not happy with what is happening in our party. The leadership of this party is getting out of hands and that is why we are here to tell our leaders that Oshiomhole must go, Oshiomhole must leave.

“When you look at the situation of our party and what has happened at the last primaries in 2019 you will agree with me that we have no leader. Since Oshiomhole came on board there is no progress in the party, there is no any development, no achievement or tangible thing to show you that there is a good example of leadership in the party.So, that is why we say Oshiomhole must go”.

Reacting to the protest, Idris Faruk, APC Deputy Youth Leader in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said those protesting against Oshiomhole are impostors and not genuine members of the party.

“I am an APC member and not just a member but I am an officer of the party in FCT. I am here to react to the protest that I don’t know why these persons who are not seen in any of the FCT politics to be the people protesting in the FCT.

“If they feel they are not happy with what they have been seeing in the party in their states, they should do it in their states. For us in the FCT,  I think we are pleased with our party and the National Chairman of our party.

“If the party is not happy with the National Chairman of our party,  some of us who are officers wouldn’t have come to the streets to react to that effect but these persons that came to the streets today to protest, I don’t think they are members of our party.”