JUST IN: Why I Can Never Be Scared Of Members’ Defection – Oshiomhole

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has reiterated his position never to be worried in the least over the threats of some members of the ruling party to return to their old Peoples Democratic Party.

The former president of the National Labour Congress said this after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House this afternoon.

This, he restated in response to the speculated defection of the R-APC factional members.

R- APC’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua had mocked Comrade Oshiomhole on Channels TV last night of licking his vomits and losing sleep over the aggrieved members of the party who are already making arrangement ahead of their exit from APC.

“I will not miss my sleep because a lot of these guys cannot on a good day deliver their unit”.

“You have seen me. Do I look like I’m losing sleep?”, Oshiomhole said in part.

Oshiomhole continued saying: “No, I am not losing sleep. I am sleeping very well. I still maintain that I don’t see any man of honour, who with his eyes open left PDP on the account of their gross mismanagement, abuse of the treasury and all of the crime that the PDP committed, I don’t see them whatever their irritations.

“That cannot be a justification to return a house that all we need to do is to play back their own tape about what PDP represents and why they left.

“I still hold the view that you can’t vomit in the morning and convert it to lunch in the afternoon if you have honour. And that position still remains the same. Number two is that yes, I have made this point clear that we can distinguish the mercenaries from those who genuinely have complaints.

“Our business as party leaders is to try and manage, listen and find solutions to those who have verifiable complaints.
But those who are permanent mercenaries and are in this business for personal reasons, there is not much we can do about that and we are not going to change the core values of the party in order to retain them.

“So, let me reinstate, we remain committed and I have said so from the word go in my acceptance speech when I was elected that we acknowledge the fact that there are people with genuine complains. For such people, we are ready to listen. We are ready to act on the basis of justice, fairness, no arrogance and inclusion. I remain committed to those.

“However, on principle, I do not deal with political mercenaries, that remains my position. I will not miss my sleep because a lot of these guys cannot on a good day deliver their unit. And we have the records that tell us who won elections and where. And I am a tested fighter, I fought them in Edo from zero – zero and I overcame their most powerful godfathers. So, I know what I am talking about, I speak from experience and I will talk, negotiate and persuade but there are core principles that are not negotiable.”