OSHIOMHOLE IN ASO ROCK, SAYS PDP POLITICIANS ARE ROGUES •HE ONCE BEGGED JONATHAN TO RUN ON OUR TICKET —PDP

FOLLOWING controversy trailing his government’s conduct of the last local government election in Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday stormed the Presidential Villa to express his disgust to President Goodluck Jonathan over what he said was an attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to create a crisis situation in the state.

Speaking to State House reporters after meeting with the president in his office in Abuja,  he said he came to tell the president that members of his party tried to create the impression that Edo State had gone out of control, following alleged rigging of the local government election by the state government.

The governor also accused the police in the state of turning a blind eye to the activities of PDP politicians because of his insistence on justice for the killers of his late aide, Ahmed Oyerinde.

The governor noted that PDP politicians complaining about rigging in Edo State council election have no right to do so because rigging was their stock in trade, which he said he has now been able to put an end to.

“Well, the first question to ask is who is complaining? If an armed robber is complaining of being robbed, it is your choice as to how much weight to place on his complaints. The history of rigging election in Nigeria is as old as PDP. They have lived on it, they have perpetuated it, they have deepened it, they have feast on it, and they have even celebrated it.

Meanwhile, the PDP on Tuesday lashed out at the Edo State Governor, Comrade Oshiomole for allegedly calling its members”rogues,” saying that the PDP has no room for his likes.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on the utterances of the governor against the members of the party, its National Publicity Secretary,Chief Olisa Metuh disclosed that PDP was now peopled by rogues as far as the governor (Oshiomhole) was concerned, having failed in his spirited efforts to beg President Jonathan to allow him to contest for second term on the PDP platform.

According to him, “ask him how many times he was crawling before the President in the villa for him to come over to the PDP to run on the ticket of our party which was turned down. “We are people of honour and good characters in PDP,we don’t want his likes in our fold, anybody can be a governor, but what matters most is the character,all our governors are men of impeccable characters any day, anytime, anywhere.

“We will never accept him,we thank God that we didn’t make the mistake of accepting him into our fold in the first instance,” Metuh declared.

On the rumoured sudden resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Alhaj Bamanga Tukur, Chief Metuh denied it,saying that he was not aware of the development.

Tukur’s alleged resignation filtered in the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the Party on Tuesday afternoon.

However one of his associates told the Nigerian Tribune in confidence that he spoke with Alhaji Tukur on Monday night during which he told him that he would be travelling to Canada in Tuesday(yesterday) and that he had actually gone to Canada as scheduled.

Source: Tribune