Former Edo State governor and top contender for the office of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo should arrested and sent to jail if found to have soiled his hands.<\/p>\n
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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. He dismissed reports credited to the former President that President Buhari wanted to frame and arrest him, saying when he was in power, he also arrested and detained people, thinking that he would be president for ever.<\/p>\n
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At the event, Hafsat Abiola Castillo accused the former President of betraying their father when he declared that Abiola was not the messiah Nigeria was looking for and never mentioned him once in his eight years in office as President.<\/p>\n
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Oshiomhole also praised Chief Frank Kokori for standing up to dictatorship when it mattered most, saying even though he was not President if the NLC, he mobilized oil workers to support the ideals of democracy.<\/p>\n
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Oshiomhole said Chief Obasanjo should be investigated and sent to jail if found to have dipped his hands in the pie.<\/p>\n
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He said: \u201cGani 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?<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf I were the president, I would arrest him. We are all Nigerians. I remember one day I told him, I said \u2018President Obasanjo, we made you president. You did not make me a Nigerian. You are our creation; I am not your creation. You must listen\u2019.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut 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.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI 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,\u00a0 that I wanted to overthrow his government. A small man like me, completely powerless.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf I am dark like this, it is because of Obasanjo\u2019s teargas. When I now hear these same people saying they are trying to arrest them, why shouldn\u2019t they be arrested? He should be arrested if he has committed any offence. He arrested many of us.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo, if we are celebrating Chief Gani Fawehinmi, we have compelling reasons to do so. In all of these, we didn\u2019t pay any money to Gani or Falana. They defended us pro bono.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo, we just consulted among ourselves, few of us who benefited from Gani\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn 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\u2019t mind dying, that if you are already in the river, you can no longer complain of being wet.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAbiola died, but Abacha also died and today, Abiola\u2019s children can go anywhere and say I am Abiola. But I am not sure of other persons\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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