A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole on Monday took a swipe at the Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) Salihu Lukman.
Lukman had accused some influential party chieftains of allegedly plotting to return Mr Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the party.
Speaking with journalists after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Oshiomhole boasted that the office of the chairman of APC did not make him who he is today.
He added that it was his pedigree as a labour leader that made him.
“You want me to engage in a fight with a pig? If you engage in a fight with a pig, the pig already is stained by its nature and you will wear your white garment, and in my own case, khaki, to go and wrestle with a pig. I will not,” he said.
“When I was removed as national chairman, Edo was APC. So, do I have to win Edo to become the chairman? Do I look so unemployed? I’m 68.
“So, what they don’t understand is that it is not the office of chairman that made me who I am.
“It is my pedigree from my days as a labourer in the textile industry to be the general secretary of textile workers all over Nigeria and becoming the president of the NLC.
“There is no village I go to that people do not know me and it is this that I used to override the godfathers in Edo State for two consecutive terms and even got a governor elected, no violence before becoming the national chairman.”
Oshiomhole said his leaving office as the party’s national chairman had not removed anything from him.
