Former governor of Edo state, Oshiomole, called for
the investigation of ex-President Obasanjo
- He said the former president should be sent to jail if
found guilty of any offence
- Oshiomole lambasted the ex-president for claiming
that President Buhari wanted to frame and arrest him
Former Edo state governor and a top contender
for the office of the national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams
Oshiomole, has said that former President
Olusegun Obasanjo should be arrested and sent
to jail if found guilty of any offence.
Oshiomhole spoke in a pre-June 12 event he
organized in honour of late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi SAN and acclaimed winner if the
June 12 1993 Presidential Election, Bashorun
MKO Abiola, The Nation reports.
The former governor dismissed reports credited
to ex-President Obasanjo that President Buhari
wanted to frame and arrest him.
He added that when Obasanjo was in power, he
also arrested and detained people, thinking that
he would be president forever.
Oshiomhole said Chief Obasanjo should be
investigated and sent to jail if found to have
dipped his hands in the pie.
He said: “Gani is not here today, but his spirit is here.
Falana is here and today, I am standing. Even the president
who was in charge then, he is now complaining that they
want to harass him. He was harassing me and he got me
arrested. He thought he himself would not be arrested?
“If I were the president, I would arrest him. We are all
Nigerians. I remember one day I told him, I said ‘President
Obasanjo, we made you president. You did not make me a
Nigerian. You are our creation; I am not your creation. You
must listen’.
“But he thought he would be in power forever and he tried
to take us on the way to Zimbabwe. He was a reluctant
Head of State, became president for two terms and he
wanted to do a third term because a cockroach licking
palm oil would never lick enough.
“I remember when I was accused by former president
Obasanjo of behaving as if I was an alternate president;
that I was running the NLC like a parallel government, that
I wanted to overthrow his government. A small man like
me, completely powerless.
“If I am dark like this, it is because of Obasanjo’s teargas.
When I now hear these same people saying they are trying
to arrest them, why shouldn’t they be arrested? He should
be arrested if he has committed any offence. He arrested
many of us.
“So, if we are celebrating Chief Gani Fawehinmi, we have
compelling reasons to do so. In all of these, we didn’t pay
any money to Gani or Falana. They defended us pro bono.
“The late Abiola would be smiling not just for the honour
done him by the president, but that Frank Kokori who was
very young then, deployed the instrumentality of oil
workers to support the progressive mission of the civil
society.
“It is not the position you occupy, but the role that you play
that will define your place in history. This man was never
an NLC president, but he is the only unionist invited to the
investiture.
“So, we just consulted among ourselves, few of us who
benefited from Gani’s leadership by using the instrument of
the law to confront evil leaders. At the NLC, we were so
efficient at causing troubles, but too poor to procure the
services of legal titans like Gani and Falana, but who would
always come and defend us pro bono. So, we felt that on the
eve of his investiture, we should gather and celebrate him.
“On June 12, the late Abacha asked us to tell Abiola to do a
national broadcast to renounce his mandate. Pascal Bafyau
advised him to take the bail conditions because he got
information that the regime was ready to keep him in jail
indefinitely, but Abiola said he wouldn’t mind dying, that if
you are already in the river, you can no longer complain of
being wet.
“Abiola died, but Abacha also died and today,
Abiola’s children can go anywhere and say I am
Abiola. But I am not sure of other persons”.
the investigation of ex-President Obasanjo
- He said the former president should be sent to jail if
found guilty of any offence
- Oshiomole lambasted the ex-president for claiming
that President Buhari wanted to frame and arrest him
Former Edo state governor and a top contender
for the office of the national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams
Oshiomole, has said that former President
Olusegun Obasanjo should be arrested and sent
to jail if found guilty of any offence.
Oshiomhole spoke in a pre-June 12 event he
organized in honour of late Chief Gani
Fawehinmi SAN and acclaimed winner if the
June 12 1993 Presidential Election, Bashorun
MKO Abiola, The Nation reports.
The former governor dismissed reports credited
to ex-President Obasanjo that President Buhari
wanted to frame and arrest him.
He added that when Obasanjo was in power, he
also arrested and detained people, thinking that
he would be president forever.
Oshiomhole said Chief Obasanjo should be
investigated and sent to jail if found to have
dipped his hands in the pie.
He said: “Gani is not here today, but his spirit is here.
Falana is here and today, I am standing. Even the president
who was in charge then, he is now complaining that they
want to harass him. He was harassing me and he got me
arrested. He thought he himself would not be arrested?
“If I were the president, I would arrest him. We are all
Nigerians. I remember one day I told him, I said ‘President
Obasanjo, we made you president. You did not make me a
Nigerian. You are our creation; I am not your creation. You
must listen’.
“But he thought he would be in power forever and he tried
to take us on the way to Zimbabwe. He was a reluctant
Head of State, became president for two terms and he
wanted to do a third term because a cockroach licking
palm oil would never lick enough.
“I remember when I was accused by former president
Obasanjo of behaving as if I was an alternate president;
that I was running the NLC like a parallel government, that
I wanted to overthrow his government. A small man like
me, completely powerless.
“If I am dark like this, it is because of Obasanjo’s teargas.
When I now hear these same people saying they are trying
to arrest them, why shouldn’t they be arrested? He should
be arrested if he has committed any offence. He arrested
many of us.
“So, if we are celebrating Chief Gani Fawehinmi, we have
compelling reasons to do so. In all of these, we didn’t pay
any money to Gani or Falana. They defended us pro bono.
“The late Abiola would be smiling not just for the honour
done him by the president, but that Frank Kokori who was
very young then, deployed the instrumentality of oil
workers to support the progressive mission of the civil
society.
“It is not the position you occupy, but the role that you play
that will define your place in history. This man was never
an NLC president, but he is the only unionist invited to the
investiture.
“So, we just consulted among ourselves, few of us who
benefited from Gani’s leadership by using the instrument of
the law to confront evil leaders. At the NLC, we were so
efficient at causing troubles, but too poor to procure the
services of legal titans like Gani and Falana, but who would
always come and defend us pro bono. So, we felt that on the
eve of his investiture, we should gather and celebrate him.
“On June 12, the late Abacha asked us to tell Abiola to do a
national broadcast to renounce his mandate. Pascal Bafyau
advised him to take the bail conditions because he got
information that the regime was ready to keep him in jail
indefinitely, but Abiola said he wouldn’t mind dying, that if
you are already in the river, you can no longer complain of
being wet.
“Abiola died, but Abacha also died and today,
Abiola’s children can go anywhere and say I am
Abiola. But I am not sure of other persons”.
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