Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole has said former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar has no moral rectitude to criticise former governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, and his successor, Sheriff Oborevwori, for decamping to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)..
The former Edo State governor stated this at the 28th Founders’ Day Lecture of the Independent Television and Radio, with the theme: “Nigeria, where are we going?”
He said Atiku has no moral ground to chastise them because decamping from one party to another is his stock in trade.
According to him, when the situation is to his favour, he does not complain, but if it goes otherwise, it becomes an issue of discourse.
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“I was listening to people who tried to evaluate the import of the reunion of Edo and Delta with Dr. Okowa and Governor Oborevwori joining the APC.”
“And those who are talking, including people like Atiku, who helped us realize by his action that a sitting vice president can decamp and take the position of a vice president to an opposition party and still retain the position and Supreme Court has pronouncement on that”
“At that time, I was the unofficial opposition as president of the NLC. he then went to Bourdillon in Lagos to join another party called Action Congress and became their presidential candidate and contested and lost.
“This same person who is louder criticizing Okowa, again defected back to the PDP, he contested and lost, he again decamped to APC and contested against former president Muhammadu Buhari and he lost. He again decamped back to PDP and contested against President Bola Tinubu and lost,” he said
He said he was surprised that Atiku was criticising a man who only decamped once from one political party to another.
Continuing, Oshiomhole denied ever saying once people join APC, their sins were forgiven, accusing the media of twisting his statement.
“I have issued statements to deny it. They (media) don’t have the proof. I have asked them to provide the video clips were I made the comment.
“A man, Patrick Iluobe was defecting from the PDP to APC and his father’s name, Iluobe in their dialect means: I have stopped doing bad.
“So, I said now that you are leaving PDP, a party that deceive people, you will stop doing bad, but the media guys who are committed to the PDP mischievously twisted that Oshiomhole said once you join, APC, all your sins are forgiven” Oshiomhole said.
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