… I’m not behind Oshiomhole’s travails – Amosun
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, called on the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and International Police (INTERPOL) to help track down Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is reported to have jetted out of the after hours of investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS), over alleged corruption charges.
The party said Oshiomhole’s swift flight out of the country, at the heat of the investigation, is suspect and goes to confirm allegations that the Presidency is shielding him from prosecution for fear that his investigation would implicate certain interests at the Presidency and the APC.
In a statement issued by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbindiyan yesterday, chided the ruling party for denying knowledge of Oshiomhole’s grilling by the DSS even as it added that the former Edo state governor cannot escape justice.
“Nigerians are already aware that Oshiomhole has not denied his investigation including his reported confession that the Presidency was in the loop of all his actions.
“The PDP had always cautioned Oshiomhole of his unbridled arrogance, lust for power and alleged embezzlement of public funds for which he must surely have his day in the hands of the law.
“The PDP demands that APC and the Presidency must immediately produce Oshiomhole to face investigation and prosecution in our courts,” the statement read in part.
Meanwhile, Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, in an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja on Thursday, denied being responsible for Oshiomhole’s reported arrest and interrogation by the Department of State Services.
He said he would never hide behind a finger if he needed to fight.
When asked that media reports suggested that he and Okorocha orchestrated Oshiomhole’s investigation, Amosun said, “I think you are probably giving me an oversight role and I am not a security person, so clearly I think that question will not be for me.
“I don’t have to hide under a finger to fight. If there is need for me to put my views across, you know me by now that I will do it.”
When he was also asked to react to the reports that the APC chairman has fled the country, the governor said, “I have told you that you are asking me questions that I am not well suited for. The one that I have to talk about, we have said it loud and clear that it doesn’t even need adding anything.”
Amosun has been confronting Oshiomhole over the decision of the party’s National Working Committee to recognise Dapo Abiodun as the governorship candidate in his state as against his preferred candidate, Abiodun Akinlade.
