Adams Oshiomhole | |
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Senator for Edo North | |
Assumed office 13 June 2023 | |
Preceded by | Francis Alimikhena |
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress | |
In office 24 July 2018 –16 June 2020 | |
Preceded by | John Odigie Oyegun |
Succeeded by | Mai Mala Buni |
Governor of Edo State | |
In office 12 November 2008 –12 November 2016 | |
Deputy | Pius Odubu |
Preceded by | Oserheimen Osunbor |
Succeeded by | Godwin Obaseki |
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress | |
In office 1999–2007 | |
Succeeded by | Abdulwaheed Omar |
Personal details | |
Born | Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole 4 April 1952 Iyamho,Auchi,Southern Region,British Nigeria (now in Edo State,Nigeria) |
Political party | All Progressives Congress (2013–present) |
Other political affiliations | Action Congress of Nigeria (2006–2013) |
Spouses | Clara Oshiomhole (died 2010)Lara Oshiomhole (m. 2015) |
Occupation | Politician |
Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole (born 4 April 1952) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the senator representing the Edo North senatorial district since June 2023. [1] He is a former national chairman of the All Progressive Congress. [2] He previously served as the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress from 1999 to 2007 and as governor of Edo State from 2008 to 2016. [3] [4]
As APC National Chairman, he was suspended from office by the Abuja Court of Appeal on 16 June 2020. [5] [6]
Oshiomhole was born on 4th of April 1952 into the humble family of Albanian Aliya Oshiomhole and Alhaja Aishetu Oshiomhole at Iyamho, near Auchi in Edo State. He was born Muslim but was led into Christianity by his late wife Clara, who died of breast cancer on 2nd of December 2010. He became a Catholic and his Christian name is Eric.
In May 2015, he married a young model, Iara Fortes. [7]
Adams Oshiomhole attended primary and secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria for his early education. Choosing to proceed further, he travelled to the United Kingdom in 1975 where he majored in economics and industrial relations at Ruskin College, Oxford. Furthermore, in 1989, he attended the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), earning him a title Member of the National Institute (MNI). [8] He also attended the Kennedy School of Government at Howard University.
In 1969, before his tertiary education, Oshiomhole took up appointment with the Arewa Textiles Company, Kaduna. The appointment became a door opener to a greater career in trade unionism and leadership. In 1982, Oshiomhole was appointed by the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTG & TWN) as the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, a union with over 75,000 workers. After democracy was restored in 1999, he became 4th president of the Nigerian Labour Congress and was prominent as the leader of a campaign of industrial action against high petrol prices in Nigeria. [9] Early in the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo he negotiated a 25% wage increase for public sector workers. In return, he publicly supported Obasanjo and endorsed his candidacy during the 2003 presidential election. [10]
The textile workers union elected Oshiomhole for a second term as General Secretary, while he continued as president of the labour union. [11]
His relationship with Obasanjo soon turned sour as neglect of local oil refineries led to the reliance on imported gasoline, which led to increase in its price. Oshiomhole led strikes and demonstrations against the increase. He faced arrests, tear gas and temporary blockades of union offices, and Obasanjo introduced legislation to make it more difficult for the NLC to strike. [10] The NLC alleged that on 9 October 2004 Oshiomhole was abducted by State Security Services agents during a protest, but the Nigerian government said he submitted to voluntary custody. [12]
He represented African workers for two terms on the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO), serving on the committee on Freedom of Association. He was also a member of the executive board of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. [9]
In April 2007, Oshiomhole ran for governor of Edo State under the Action Congress Party, with which his Labour Party had entered a strategic alliance. [9] Oserheimen Osunbor of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was declared the winner. However, the AC contested the election on the basis of various irregularities. On 20 March 2008, the Edo State election tribunal nullified the election of Osunbor and declared Oshiomhole the winner. On 11 November 2008, a federal Appeal Court sitting in Benin City upheld the ruling of the state's elections petitions tribunal, declaring Oshiomole to be the governor of Edo State. [13] The decision was based on several voting irregularities. [14]
During the 2012 Edo State gubernatorial election, he was elected to a second term, winning the elections in a massive landslide. [15] His tenure ended on 12 November 2016. [16]
On 23 June 2018, Oshiomhole emerged as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following a voice vote by delegates at the party National convention. [17] [18]
On 12 November 2019, Oshiomhole was suspended from the APC after 18 Local Government Chairmen of the party in his native state of Edo passed a vote of no confidence on him. He was accused of trying to disintegrate the party in Edo State. But a faction of the party loyal to Oshiomhole declared his suspension null and void and then suspended Governor Godwin Obaseki of the state whom they say orchestrated Oshiomhole's suspension. [19] [20] [21]
On 15 January 2020, Edo APC reaffirmed the suspension of Oshiomhole and said he had no legal right to continue to function as the APC National Chairman by the virtue of his suspension in Edo State. [22] [23] On 4 March 2020, a High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the suspension of Oshiomhole from office of the National Chairman of the APC that having been suspended from the party, Oshiomhole was no longer a member of the party and could not possibly continue to discharge his official responsibilities as national chairman with a clear order of the court that Oshiomhole be restricted from the national secretariat of the party. [24] [25] [26]
Armed security agents including the Police, Department of State Service (DSS) and Civil Defence were heavily deployed to the secretariat to prevent Oshiomhole from entering. On 5 March 2020, a Federal High Court in Kano gave another judgment which vacated the judgement of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court and restored Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the APC. [27] [28] [29] [30] This created confusion as to which judgment to obey because both courts (FCT High Court and Federal High Court Kano) are of equal jurisdiction and non of them could vacate the judgment of the other. [31] [32] Oshiomole appealed against his suspension at the Abuja Court of Appeal and the court affirmed his suspension on 16 June 2020.
On 28 May 2022, Oshiomhole won the APC primaries for the 2023 Edo North Senatorial Elections and on February 2023, declared Oshiomhole the winner of 2023 senatorial election for Edo North Senatorial District defeating then-incumbent senator Francis Alimekhena of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 55,344 votes against Oshiomhole's 107,110 votes. [33]
Oshiomhole was named chairman on committee on Interior of the Nigerian senate on 8 August 2023. [34]
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