Elderstatesman Dr Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia reacted yesterday in
Benin to the comment by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Abuja that Governor Adams Oshiomhole pleaded to join the party,
saying it is untrue.
Ogbemudia said he led a delegation of himself, Senator Victor Oyofo,
Dr Willie Ogbeide and three others to persuade Oshiomhole to come to
PDP.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and two time former Governor of old Bendel State, Dr Ogbemudia said he
was shocked when Oshiomhole told them that if he came to PDP his friends
in the media would kill him.
“So I was, therefore, embarrassed when I heard that the PDP said he
came to them and they rejected him. So the answer for PDP lies in coming
together, solve their problem, install internal democracy and
re-organise their management to victory” he said.
On the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Ogbemudia said that “the
forum, according to experts, is not in the constitution, but as far as I
am concerned, whether it is in the constitution or not, it has come to
stay. The governors are the custodians of the democratic votes; they are
the ones running the country; they are supposed to be the Chief
Security Officer of each state.”
He went on: “The President should be the arbiter; he should call the
two warring factions together and settle them. So I expect and appeal to
the President to settle them. He should not allow the governors to
break up into factions; otherwise the 2015 election will not be total.
So, if you want their blessing, you employ them to help you, talk to
them like brothers, but if anybody has succeeded in intimidating someone
to do what he likes, I don’t think Governor’s Forum is the one that can
be intimidated to do what game they want them to play. So it is through
negotiation. Nigeria has developed a language called dialogue. So they
should dialogue with the governors.”
Read Olisa Metu's version here
http://umezeigwe.blogspot.com/2013/05/oshiomhole-begged-to-join-pdp-metuh.html
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