[dropcap]V[/dropcap]ictor Giadom, the All Progressives Congress(APC) deputy national secretary, ended up with eggs on his face on Monday.
He has been the arrow head of the move by some rebels within the party to oust Adams Oshiomhole as chairman. But his efforts were aborted at Aso Villa and the Appeal court, in a stunning turn-around acceded to Oshiomhole’s prayer by hanging a lower court order removing Oshiomhole as chairman.
Giadom’s moves began to fall into smithereens after President Buhari and governors of the party jettisoned the plans for an emergency meeting of National Executive Committee.
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Hours after, a Federal court in Lagos stopped the planned NEC meeting and the appeal court after first making Oshiomhole miserable by not hearing his appeal, made a volte-face by listening to him and giving him the legal order he wanted.
The developments, in quick succession would make Giadom scurry back into his playbook on how to remove a party leader.
Until Monday’s decision, Giadom had, in all intent and purposes installed himself as Oshiomhole’s interim successor, waving a court order and the endorsement of a faction of South South APC, which supported him at a meeting said to have held at Governor Godwin Obaseki’s Abuja home.
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