Former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole has said that he would have arrested and prosecuted former President Olusegun Obasanjo if he were President Muhammadu Buhari.
Oshiomhole, who weighed in over the faceoff between President Buhari and Obasanjo, yesterday, urged Buhari to investigate and jail the former president, should he be found to have dipped his hands into the nation’s treasury.
Speaking at the event in honour of late Chief MKO Abiola’s family, Oshiomhole also praised Chief Frank Kokori for standing up to dictatorship when it mattered most.
“He should be arrested if he has committed any offence. He arrested many of us. 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, ” Oshiomhole said.
He continued, “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? 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.”
Oshiomhole recalled how he was accused by Obasanjo of behaving as if he was an alternate president; and was running the NLC like a parallel government that wanted to overthrow his government.
