The Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, says
former President Goodluck Jonathan threatened
to put him in a hole after the presidential
elections in 2015 was concluded. Oshiomole
made the allegation while speaking with some
APC leaders in Edo state yesterday January 14th.
"Around this time last year, in January, a
few weeks to the election, many were
saying quite recklessly on radio and
television that we were finished.
The former President, Goodluck Jonathan
told our National Chairman, Chief John
Odigie Oyegun to inform me that after the
election, he will put me, Adams, the son of
Oshiomhole in a hole and I told Chief
Oyegun to inform him to dig that hole very
deep because although I am short, in the
course of pushing me into the hole, nobody
knows who will get there first. Since he is
taller than me, he needs to dig the hole
deep enough so that either of us can get
in. In the end, he is inside the hole and I
am busy putting dust into that hole. In this
hall, around this time last year, we held a
meeting to share information about what
was going on in various local governments
and the specific challenges in each of those
local government in order to fashion out
appropriate response. Some of the
statements that we shared in those
meetings included threats that by June,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole would have
been impeached because PDP would write
results whether we liked it or not. They
would overrun the House of Assembly and
once the House is proclaimed in June,
before the end of June, Comrade would be
banished to his house in the village and
from there to prison. Those who made
those threats, who supervised those
processes, even now in their early 90s are
writing letters to explain how they shared
money meant for defence. Every evil
weapon they fashioned against me did not
prosper and even the ones they are
fashioning now will not prosper.”
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