Oshiomhole: GEJ fell into the hole he dug for me

Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, says former president Goodluck Jonathan threatened to cage him inside a hole but he is now the one “putting dust in that hole”.

Addressing leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state during a stakeholders meeting, the ‘comrade governor’ as he is popularly called, said he would have been impeached if the former president had been re-elected.

“Around this time last year, in January, a few weeks to the election, many were saying quite recklessly on radio and television that we were finished,” he said.

“Former President Goodluck Jonathan told our national chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, to inform me that after the election, he will put me, Adams, the son of Oshiomhole, in a hole and I told Chief Oyegun to inform him to dig that hole very deep because although I am short, in the course of pushing me into the hole, nobody knows who will get there first,” he said.

“Since he is taller than me, he needs to dig the hole deep enough so that either of us can get in. In the end, he is inside the hole and I am busy putting dust into that hole.

“In this hall, around this time last year, we held a meeting to share information about what was going on in various local governments and the specific challenges in each of those local government in order to fashion out appropriate response.

“Some of the statements that we shared in those meetings included threats that I would have been impeached.

“Those who made those threats, who supervised those processes, even now in their early 90s, are writing letters to explain how they shared money meant for defence.

“Every evil weapon they fashioned against me did not prosper and even the ones they are fashioning now will not prosper.”