{"id":58813,"date":"2018-11-06T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58813"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:41:22","slug":"apc-ex-national-chairmanship-aspirant-emokpaire-speaks-on-battle-against-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58813","title":{"rendered":"APC: Ex-national chairmanship aspirant, Emokpaire speaks on battle against Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ibrahim Emokpaire, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairmanship aspirant, has called on members of the party across the federation to support Adams Oshiomhole, the party\u2019s national chairman.
\nEmokpaire made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
\nHe added that Oshiomhole deserved the support of APC members to enable him to enthrone internal democracy in the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cOshiomhole deserves our support. I enjoin all party members to come together and support him, because we unanimously elected him on June 23, 2018,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Emokpaire noted that Oshiomhole had given the APC a strong leadership and had been working to enthrone internal democracy in the party since he assumed office.
\nHe alleged that the crisis that followed the party`s primaries in some states, may not be unconnected with the activities of those who advocated for the extension of the tenure of the party\u2019s last National Working Committee (NWC).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can see the handwork of the agents of tenure elongation at play, the same advocates of tenure elongation are mostly behind the removal of the party National Chairman.
\n\u201cGoing forward, I will appeal to those demanding for the removal of Comrade Oshiomhole to sheath their sword and allow peace to reign within the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should not play into the hands of our opposition who are regrouping to take over power and completely ruin our nation of what is left\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

He appealed to Oshiomhole to however, put in place a reconciliation committee to reconcile aggrieved party members ahead of the 2019 general election, adding that he should not to be distracted, but to remain focused.
\nEmokpaire noted that the APC led Federal Government had achieved great feat, adding that the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration had demonstrated to Nigerians that good governance was possible.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ibrahim Emokpaire, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairmanship aspirant, has called on members of the party across the federation to support Adams Oshiomhole, the party\u2019s national chairman. Emokpaire made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He added that Oshiomhole deserved the support of APC members to enable him to enthrone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5734,29],"class_list":["post-58813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-adams-oshimhole","tag-apc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}