Even I've been in Gautam's place. And it is really hard to be in such a situation whereby everyone is just trying to pull down. But it is then only when you know who are your real friends or you got to learn that there is no such thing as friendship. But in the end, you emerge as winner.
In BB8 case, many people advocated that puneet will ditch gautam one day or the other, but praneet and pritam did it first. Last time gautam forgave puneet and pritam for the captaincy task when he came to learn about these two intentions in WKW. He was kept on forgiving praneet every time on puneet's request. But i guess it's enough now. You can give second chances not anymore.
Gautam needed this, to realise the truth about his "close circles" and their hidden agendas or dark motives.