Akin Osuntokun, campaign spokesman, PDP Presidential campaign has taken a swipe at Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress over his claim that God will punish former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,who is also the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP.
Osuntokun while reacting to Oshiomhole’s remark said in a statement that “If anyone has a case to answer before God and man, Oshiomhole would rank very high as a contender. From his mercenary escapades as labour leader through his scandal ridden tenure as governor of Edo state to his equally scandal and hooliganism ridden tenure as APC chairman, he surely is a formidable candidate for multiple lifetime penitence and purgatory.
The spokesman of PDP Presidential campaign went down memory lane to unearth alleged treachery in high places: “I bear first hand witness to his outing as a member (in his capacity as deputy president of the Nigeria Labour Congress) of a four man civil society delegation invited to a classified debriefing session on the Presidential election annulment crisis rocking Nigeria by the German government in 1994. This would be my first encounter with the high level treachery that characterized that unfortunate episode in Nigerian history. They run with the dare and hunt with the wolf.
“It was during his tenure as the NLC president that his Jekyll and Hyde career truly blossomed. It was labour racketeering at its most unconscionable. While shouting aluta during the day, these people were busy hobnobbing in the night seasons with officers and agents of the government on how to contrive the beginning and end of labour strikes.
“His antecedents as governor of Edo state has been most authoritatively captured in the petition submitted to the EFCC two years ago by Bishop Osadolor. Not surprisingly, it reads like a grade A book of scandals meticulously stated with time, facts and figures. The most important credibility test of the petition is the glaring evidence available for all to witness in the form of obscene opulent, billions Naira worth of real estate acquired by Oshiomole in his village while serving as governor. Rather than take action to clear his name, he took shelter in the curious decision of the EFCC to ignore the petition.
“An innocent man would have been properly outraged and sued the petitioner for defamation of character rather than rely on the curious inaction of the EFCC. Despite constituting an eyesore and a festering wound in the conscience of public spirited Nigerians, it is consistent with the tragic hypocrisy of the Buhari government that its anti-corruption agencies have not deemed it fit to invite Oshiomhole to come and account for this monument to corruption.
“On the contrary, he was rewarded with the chairmanship of the campaign of a President seeking re-election on the platform of fighting corruption. Of course he wasted little time in drawing attention to the authenticity of how the maggot is always found in the company of putrefaction. This is why barefaced hooliganism and corruption have come, once again, to define his career-according to the First Lady, Governors Amosun, Okorocha, Yari and similar casualties.”
