I Avoided The Benin City APC Rally Willingly – Adams Oshiomhole

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Dec 13, 2019

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshimhole, has come out to say that he avoided the rally in Benin City willingly, and he was not forced.

According to him, he did not want the enemies of APC to seize that opportunity to instigate violence and killings.

He added he had to take that step because it was obvious that those opposed to the rally attempted to cause mayhem and then pin it on him.

His words, “To forestall their evil plan, the event was moved to Ize Iyamu’s residence and l stayed away. It held peacefully”

“The huge crowd at the event attests to its success.”

Do you think he was held against his will?

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.