TRACKING______Adams Oshiomhole, the embattled Chairman of the All Progressive Congress has been unusually silent, since the Abuja Appeal court gave him a lifeline that has kept him as the APC national chairman till date. Currently, Oshiomhole who as APC chairman, virtually turned himself to both the minister of information and APC’s spokesperson for a long time, has now become silent and completely out of engaging in discussing national issues as he uses to do. The question is what could have happened to the man who talks on national matters like he was or is the lord decider of national direction?
Though he was reported to have had contact with Abba Kyari along with other political personalities, the good news is that almost all of them tested negative to the coronavirus Covid-19 that eventually killed Abba Kyari; meaning, Oshiomhole is fine and well. So why could a once overbearing Oshiomhole on national matters, suddenly become calm? could someone had shown him his “file” and he just decided to be silent as to protect himself from a possible sack and disgrace?
Recall that Abba Kyari, was instrumental in saving Oshiomhole from fall, when one Mr. Afolabi an APC member sued him in FCT high court, demanding that Oshiomhole be sacked as the chairman of the APC. Afolabi’s reason was that Oshiomhole, being under suspension at the state level of the APC, in Edo state, and having not challenged the suspension is not fit to continue as the chairman of the party. Meanwhile, this was more like giving a legal angle to the displeasure that has been in the APC, even at the Nation Working Committee level, over Oshiomhole continuous leadership, even when he has been suspended in his home state.
Fortunately, after Oshiomhole had tried all his best, including getting a counter injunction from a Kano high court, and visiting Buhari, without any success. He appealed the FCT order. However, as disgraceful defeat was starring at him at the Appeal court, which had on the day of hearing, decided to indefinitely adjourned the Oshiomhole’s appeal, He went to Abba Kyari, whose intervention eventually saved Oshiomhole, when the Appeal court gave an injunction for the stoppage of executing the order of the FCT. Abba Kyari didn’t stop there, he subsequently called to meet with the APC governors, who were also bent on getting Oshiomhole out, because of his unending conflict with Obaseki, their fellow governor.
So, from the above premise, Oshiomhole may have entered a pact to reconcile with Obaseki, which could probably be responsible for his unusual silence of Oshiomhole. This definitely had the input of Abba Kyari who saved him from the harmer of the Abuja Court of Appeal. Kyari could have told Oshiomhole to go reconcile with Obaseki, since he (Kyari) was allegedly the most powerful in the Buhari’s government before his death; and whatever he says was deemed to have Buhari’s support. And also, Kyari could have appealed to the governors to allow Oshiomhole a stay, based on the proposed reconciliation with Obaseki. And these suggestion or agreement, which are hard to swallow, could have weakened Oshiomhole and thus made him to withdraw from his usual unguided talks on national issue, since he now has a more profitable matter to occupy himself with, namely reconciliation with Obaseki.
Mind you, there shouldn’t have been any problem with Oshiomhole’s reconciling with Obaseki, but for the team of politicians he had assembled to fight Obaseki, with different promises to each. The situation puts him in a very complex conner, that reconciling with Obaseki, means betraying those he had forced to align with him, but reconciliation will save his chairmanship position; and staying with his team to keep fighting Obaseki, will cost him his chairmanship and eventually get him liquidated from the national political scene. So this dilemma of his could possibly be why Oshiomhole has gone into sudden silence.
