Former Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, says he would have
arrested former President Olusegun Obasanjo if he was Nigeria’s
president. Oshiomole made the comment when he spoke at the June 12th
investiture that held at the state house Abuja yesterday.
Recall that Obasanjo last week raised alarm that the Federal
government is planning to arrest him on trumped up charges, an
allegation the government has since denied.
Oshiomole who spoke to newsmen at the event said
“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. 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”.