Former National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) has said he would not respond to the allegations levelled against him by the Director-General of the APC Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman.
He added that responding to the allegations would amount to joining issues with a “pig”.
Oshiomhole stated this on Monday while fielding questions from State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Mohammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He was asked to react to Lukman’s claim that he (Oshiomhole) was frustrating the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee of the party to pave way for his return as National Chairman.
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The former Edo state governor said some “cowards” in the forum were using Lukman to attack him.
Oshiomhole, “You want me to engage in a fight with a pig? If you engage in a fight with a pig, the pig already is stained by its nature and you will wear your white garment, and in my own case, khaki to go and wrestle with a pig? I will not.
“You see, what I want the media to interrogate, how does winning Edo…when I was removed as national chairman, Edo was APC. So do I have to win Edo to become the chairman? Do I look so unemployed? I’m 68.
“So, what they don’t understand is that it is not the office of chairman that makes me who I am. It is my pedigree from my days as a labourer in the textile industry to be the general secretary of textile workers all over Nigeria and becoming the president of NLC.
“There is no village I go to that people do not know me and is this that I used to override The Godfathers in Edo State for two consecutive terms and even got the governor elected through elections, no violence before becoming the national chairman.
“So, if you remove the office…is like our president now, maybe I cannot compare myself to him, but it is like President Muhammadu Buhari by 2023, when his tenure would have elapsed as President but those who believe in him, in 2024 and beyond, any time they see him, that trust they have in him will always be there.
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“He bonds with the people, that bond was not created by the fact that he is the president, in fact, he became the president because of that bond.
“So, it takes an empty brain to suggest that Oh Oshiomhole wants to stage a come back to become the national chairman. For what? To go and do a resit?
“So my attitude is not to reply the noise and it is coming from somebody who says he is an employee, an appointee of Progressives Governors Forum, it is just like the cowards that are using him are not able to come out.
“Otherwise, you should ask this guy, who is now an election expert. He contested for senate against Makarfi, he lost. He even contested against governor El-Rufai during the primaries and he lost before Fayemi unilaterally appointed him the DG.
“So, if he is now the spokesman abusing me and all of that, you want to drag me to his level? No! A gentleman does not wrestle with a pig if you do you will always be stained and I don’t want to get into that.”