Oshiomohle: I’ll subject Buhari, govs, others to party supremacy

The leading chairmanship aspirant for the office of the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomohle, has promised to ensure that party supremacy “becomes effective” by “subjecting even the president and other offices to the dictates of the party” if he eventually wins.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja when he held an interactive session with young stakeholders of the party, Oshiomohle said “it is the duty of the political parties, particularly a governing party, to put policies on the economy, social policies and policies that affect how the society is organised and run.”
“My hope is that if by the special grace of God I become the APC National Chairman, we will need to be very clear about all these and other issues and that anyone elected on our platform, including the President will be expected to conduct government and governance in a way that promote the core values of progressive governance,” he said.
While decrying the act of promoting ethnic and religious matters by major political parties in the country, the former Labour leader said: “The whole idea of seeking election on a party platform is that there is a burden of ideas to be shared and that bind us together. To my recollection, we haven’t had any serious platform as a party where the agenda was to debate policy options of policy choices attached to each of policy we fought for.
“To me, this is what a political party should represent. It is not only meeting during elections, but meet from time to time to discuss policy option. I think that we are in a situation that the only thing that command banner headlines in our media today are more of issues of religion and ethnicity.
“I believe that it is the duty of the political parties, particularly a governing party, to put policies on the economy, social policies; policies that affect how our society is organised and run and even issues of crime, to have a policy on how to fight crime. That way, we will be discussing issues.”
Oshiomohle gave the assurance that if he emerged the next National Chairman, “we will subject everyone to the dictates of our constitution and remain faithful to the manifesto of the party on the basis of which we were elected by the Nigerian people.”
“I believe that everything considered, we are still the favored party, but we must not take the support of the people for granted. My task is to be able to assist government at all levels to work in a way that reflect the core values of the APC.”