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Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo SAN, Minister for Health and Minister of State for power are among the top executives of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet who met with top South South APC leaders and Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state last night to perfect plans to remove the embattled National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
The meeting which was summoned by Governor Godwin Obaseki held all night at the Edo State Governors lodge, Abuja, ref=”http://thenewsguru.com/”>TheNewsGuru.com, TNG can authoritatively report.
TNG reports that the meeting which held on Thursday night at the Edo State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja also had Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire and Minister of State for power Goddy Jedy-Agba in attendance.
“Yes, the meeting held yesterday at the Edo State Governor’s lodge. Four serving ministers including other South South leaders were present. Top on the agenda was how to strategically position our party (APC) for future elections and also ensure the incumbent chairman is relieved of his position”, TNG source at the crucial meeting said.
Also in attendance at the meeting is former Edo State governor Prof Oserheimen Osunbor, immediate past Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Safety Administration Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku Peterside and Senator Ndoma Egba.
Others are former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani, Chairman of Edo State chapter of the party, Anselm Ojezua, Senator Domingo Obende, Senator James Akpan Udo-Edehe, and several others.
Recall that the National Vice Chairman of the party (South-South) Hillard Eta had earlier called for a boycott of the meeting of the South-South stakeholders summoned by Governor Obaseki against his predecessor.
The APC leader (Eta) said the meeting was illegal because the governor lacked the power to initiate it.
From the new development, there are insinuation in some quarters that the presence of the aforesaid APC bigwigs in South-South stresses that the Obaseki-led faction of APC enjoys a better relationship with the Presidency – a feat foretelling the peril Oshiomhole faces in the party today.
Meanwhile some supporters of the party removed billboards, banners and posters bearing images of the embattled National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, at the National secretariat in Abuja.
The billboards and banners disappeared overnight from walls and strategic points around and inside the secretariat.
Only a billboard bearing the image of President Muhammadu Buhari was left standing at the national secretariat of the party as at the time of this report.
There was also indication that Oshiomhole and some of his loyalists will not be present at next Tuesday’s National Executive Council meeting of the party.
Recall also that a Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday approved the controversial National Executive Committee, NEC, emergency session of the party scheduled for next week.
The court restrained National Working Committee (NWC) members loyal to Oshiomhole, from obstructing the conduct of the meeting which is expected to decide the fate of the embattled former Edo governor.