“The poisonous messages being
reeled by Comrade Adam Oshiomole to justify the APC governor
ship candidate is
like a plague from hell”, admits Olorogun Peter Abu, the Secretary-General of
South-South Journalists Forum (SSJF) Abuja Chapter. He was speaking to newsmen
on Sallah eve in Abuja, on the lack of morality and integrity surrounding the September
19, Edo State governorship elections. “The first casualty is a dearth of
visionary leadership in Nigeria”, he began. “The second is that Oshiomole
himself is a barrier to civilization”, he stressed. According to him, it is
appalling watching and listening to his naked lies painting black white and red-green, meaning that the Edo State governorship elections are already bereft of
principles and ideology”. Olorogun is sad that upon the stark reality that the
APC governorship candidate has a standing fraud and court case, people still
troop out to listen to him. “That is the sad development in our political arena”
he stated. “Adams Oshiomole is taking Nigeria’s democracy back to the stone
ages and heaping woes on the hapless citizens;
he is inventing thorns and shrapnel’s to inflict punishment on the people and
the law enforcement agencies’ are looking on; he is without shame peddling falsehood to the shock of the
new generation of Nigerians”, lamented Abu. “This man is a barrier to genuine development
and a threat to peace and stability”, Olorogun declared, calling on Edo people
to resist his evil antics from hell. “He wants to engulf the State in political
crisis; he wants to make the people paranoid and jittery so that he can reclaim
the treasury”, Abu stated revealing that to be his ultimate ambition—not the
welfare of the people. Olorogun then warns that if nothing is done to curtail him,
the backlash would be too severe to contend with. “We are seeing a wicked adversary
and we are tolerating him; this man is displaying blasphemy and we are looking
on; the next stage would be xenophobia the type we had in South Africa where
brothers would rise against brothers”, charged Olorogun Abu. He then enjoined
the Edo people to collectively and jointly force him out of politics by dealing
a heavy blow against him in the forthcoming elections. Olorogun reminded Edo
people that even Pharaoh at a time when the fire was too much against him,
capitulated and freed the Israelites. “Oshiomole retired the late Anenih; this
is the time for him to be retired compulsorily”, he declared. Nevertheless, the record
holds that since Oshiomole’s entrance into Nigeria’s politics, the only
language familiar to him is crude deception. In his Labour days, he would
dribble Nigerians to the brink of demonstrations only for him to deftly rescind
after receiving gratification overnight. “He sees himself as the Pontius Pilate
of our time forgetting the fate that befell him”, disclosed Olorogun. Suddenly, it is now obvious that the APC
government is just a charade and without character, integrity and morality. It
is also clear that the APC government for condoning Oshiomole and allowing him
to campaign has nothing to offer Nigerians. “No wonder the spate of killings,
rape, banditry and terrorism that has engulfed the nation”, lamented Olorogun.
He said, referring to the Chinese government, that you could see houses built on top rocks, bridges constructed across
difficult terrains; but here, all the APC government has to offer is how to borrow,
borrow and borrow. But the good news according to Olorogun is that just like all
the wild beast, Leviathan, Satan and his cohorts were defeated in the Bible, so
also Oshiomole would be defeated in this elections. “There is no escape for
him; he may be bigger than the people because he sees himself as above the law;
but he is not bigger than God”, decried Abu.
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