Adams Oshiomole Comes For Ex-President Jonathan Again

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday came for
president Jonathan again saying the former president and his then ministers
almost destroyed Nigeria through corruption. He said for example, at their last
visit to America where he was part of President Buhari’s entourage, it was
revealed to them that a minister single handled stole $6bn, in what America it
self described to be earth-shattering. Oshiomole said these and more yesterday
in Abuja shortly after meeting with the president to State House
correspondents. Read all he said below…

“The PDP destroyed the country. I mean from the lips of
American officials; senior officials of the State Department said one minister
under PDP cornered as much as $6bn.

“The man said even by Washington’s standard, that is
earth-shattering.

“So, the PDP is a party that presided over the liquidation
of our nation, destroyed all our institutions, converted the Armed Forces
commanders to use them as if they were political thugs, converted the Nigerian
Television Authority to a party megaphone, destroyed the Department of State
Services, went after opposition as if we were rabbits to be pursued into our
holes, compromised even student unions and destroyed everything that you can
think of, and elevated religion to a state affair.

“Under the party, Israel became a place you visit every
week; they placed pastors against mallams, placed the North against the South,
the East against the West, just to retain power; elevate Obas and Obis with
dollars.

“You guys (journalists) were reporting dollars that were
changing hands; when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was spending
much more money than is available to the Federation Account.

“We are a very patient people. If we were not a patient
people, anybody wearing the tag of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because you
are all victims — all of us here.”

He added, “Mr. Johnnie Carson, who was the Assistant
Secretary of State, when we visited him in company with Senator (Bukola)
Saraki, then as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum — that was at the
eve of President Obama’s first visit to Africa — and we went to complain, ‘why
is Nigeria not on the list?’

“What he said, for me, was quite instructive compared to
what he said last week. Then I was present when he said ‘you know, we, who see
ourselves not just as friends of Nigeria, each time we think there is light at
the end of the tunnel and it is time to encourage Nigeria to build on it, you
would wake up the following day under President Jonathan to find out that even
the tunnel had been removed.’

“Those were the words of Mr. Carson. Now last week, this
same Carson chaired the President’s address at the Institute of Peace and he
said ‘we now have a man of enormous integrity; one that has shown so much faith
in the democratic process; one that refused to be frustrated even in the face
of massively rigged elections. He submitted to the judicial process and even
when that was compromised he never gave up.

“‘America has done its check and we are convinced that this
President is the one that Nigeria needs at this time to regain its leadership
of the African continent.’”