Obasanjo should be jailed if… – Oshiomhole

Former Edo state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo should arrested and sent to jail if found to have soiled his hands.
Oshiomhole stated this at a pre-June 12 event he organised in honour of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Bashorun MKO Abiola.
He said Obasanjo’s recent claim that President Buhari wanted to frame and arrest him was not true, adding that “when he was in power, he also arrested and detained people, thinking that he would be president for ever.” “If I were the president, I would arrest him.
We are all Nigerians.
I remember one day I told him, I said ‘President Obasanjo, we made you president.
You did not make me a Nigerian.
You are our creation; I am not your creation.
You must listen.’ “But he thought he would be in power forever and he tried to take us on the way to Zimbabwe.
He was a reluctant Head of State, became president for two terms and he wanted to do a third term because a cockroach licking palm oil would never lick enough.
“I remember when I was accused by former president Obasanjo of behaving as if I was an alternate president; that I was running the NLC like a parallel government, that I wanted to overthrow his government; a small man like me, completely powerless.
“If I am dark like this, it is because of Obasanjo’s teargas.
When I now hear these same people saying they are trying to arrest them, why shouldn’t they be arrested? He should be arrested if he has committed any offence.
He arrested many of us.
Oshiomhole also praised Chief Frank Kokori for “standing up to dictatorship when it mattered most,” saying even though he was not President if the NLC, he “mobilised oil workers to support the ideals of democracy.” He said: “Gani is not here today, but his spirit is here.
Falana is here and today, I am standing. Even the president who was in charge then, he is now complaining that they want to harass him. He was harassing me and he got me arrested. He thought he himself would not be arrested.
“So, if we are celebrating Chief Gani Fawehinmi, we have compelling reasons to do so.
In all of these, we didn’t pay any money to Gani or Falana.
They defended us pro bono.”