The Director General, Progressive
Governors’ Forum (PGF), Dr. Salihu Lukman has replied former National Chairman,
All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for attacking him.
He simply said he held Oshiomhole
in high esteem and would not join issues with him.
Oshiomhole had on Monday
tongue-lashed Lukman, likening him to a pig and an empty brain.
Lukman had suggested that
Oshiomhole in embarking on Edo governorship campaign wanted to re-contest the
APC chairmanship.
But Oshiomhole said: “it takes an
empty brain to suggest that I only want to stage a come back to become the
national chairman. For what? To go and do a reset?”
Reacting to Oshiomhole’s comment
on him on Tuesday, Lukman said he should be held accountable for all the
comments made, as he was not a voice for any Governor.
“You are all aware of the
statement attributed to the former National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole. I want to make two brief statements as a rider to what I will call
an appeal. The first statement is to say very unequivocally that I hold Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole in a very high esteem.
“I respect him, not just as a
leader of APC, but as a person. I have had very good relationship with him and
my relationship with him is special. My relationship with him is not in the way
people imagined. The question of agreeing or disagreeing has been part of our
relationship. I respect him and I respect every leader of the party.
“My prayer and hope is that our
leaders will be able to have the needed large heart to tolerate one another and
tolerate all of us because as human beings, God has created us differently. And
it is the basis of the test of leadership – to be able to show an open,
accommodating disposition to each one of us,” he said.
He added that “The second
statement I want to make is that I grew up in a very complex extended family
set up and one of the things it has done in terms of my personal make up is
that it imposes on me to be accountable at every point in time.
“When I commit an offence, based
on my upbringing in that environment, I never transfer any of my offences to my
parents or to any of my senior ones. I was always made to account and where
there is the need as part of that accountability for me to be punished, I get
punished. Having said that, I am open and ready to account for whatever I had
said to the party and the leadership; if in the end the process of
accountability requires that I get sanctioned, I will accept and I will remain
in this party and continue to contribute in whatever way I can to help the
development of the party.”
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