{"id":26895,"date":"2020-06-28T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26895"},"modified":"2020-06-28T19:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:08:25","slug":"humble-pie-goes-round-as-oshiomhole-accepts-nwc-dissolution-pledges-loyalty-to-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26895","title":{"rendered":"Humble pie goes round as Oshiomhole accepts NWC dissolution, pledges loyalty to Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The humble pie going round in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come to the turn of Comrade AdamsOshiomhole, who has accepted the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) and pledged loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari.<br \/>\nThis has put paid speculations of a bitter fight within the ruling party, which may have precipitated a dog fight, and a backlash of financial investigations to shut up troublemakers.<br \/>\nRecall that party strongman in the South-West, Asiwalu Bola Ahmed Tinubu, also acquiesced, in a statement he personal signed that brought out the statesman in him.<br \/>\nEarlier, the former party spokesman, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, backed the decision of the National Executive Committee (NEC) on the NWC he served up to the last minute leading to its sack.<br \/>\nThere are those on social media who believe the rash of &#8216;surrender&#8217; is to give a breather for re-strategisation for a straight fight.<br \/>\nBriefing journalists on Saturday in Abuja, the ex-chairman said he has formally accepted the dissolution of the party\u2019s NWC under his leadership.<br \/>\nAccording to Oshiomole, the real test of his loyalty is not when things are going smoothly but when things suddenly become rough.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course, we have now been dissolved and I have accepted that dissolution in good fate. I have always assured the President of my loyalty.<br \/>\n\u201cI know it is easy for people to speak of loyalty when the going is good but loyalty is brought to the test when the going gets really tough,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe also expressed his joy that the APC under his leadership was able to work hard to ensure that unity returned to the Ninth Assembly.<br \/>\nOshiomhole added that the emergence of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has helped the executive arm of government to succeed.<br \/>\nHis remarks followed the dissolution by the APC National Executive Committee (NEC).<br \/>\nThe party\u2019s council took the decision at a virtual emergency meeting, based on the recommendations of President Buhari.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Additional by Channels TV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humble pie going round in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come to the turn of Comrade AdamsOshiomhole, who has accepted the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) and pledged loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari. This has put paid speculations of a bitter fight within the ruling party, which may have precipitated a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[1513,1748,80],"class_list":["post-26895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-loyalty","tag-nwc","tag-oshiomhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}