Tobias Sylvester
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, led a song filled with chants of ‘thief’ against the Senate President Bukola Saraki, who was a member of his party until July 2018 when he defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Adams Oshiomhole led this song during his speech at the APC presidential rally in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. He said:
“I challenge Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of PDP. We will publish the record. In his election in 2011, Atiku lost in Adamawa; he lost all the three senatorial seats,” he began, before going on to explain how three senators lost an election in 2015 only for Atiku to insist otherwise.
“President Obasanjo called me; I was in Labour; I was the real opposition. And he said, ‘listen, now listen, o ti to (it is enough)… ole, ole (theft, theft) will kill you. My own comrade, I need you to say… because when they talk of rigging and manipulation, they are the sustenance of rigging.
“One of the losers wrote a congratulatory letter to the man who won, but because Atiku felt, how can he be Vice-President and he lost his own state, he paid N100 million each to those who won for them to accept defeat. That is how those who lost, they smuggled them into victory; those who won, they paid them to accept defeat.
“Is that a man who will speak of honesty? Is that a man who can speak to integrity? Is that a man who can speak to character?
“Atiku wants to become Chairman of INEC, his Vice President wants to become Inspector General of Police. Their campaign Director-General is the man who presided over the liquidation of Societe Generale Bank after they had collected the deposits of very poor people. Bukola Saraki.”
At this point the crowd chanted ole (thief).
Oshiomhole joined in, saying: “Bukola Saraki, ole (thief).”
Oshiomhole then broke into a song during which he chants “Bukola Saraki” and the crowd respond with “ole” (thief).
At some point, he mixed it with “PDP”, to which the crowd also responded with “ole” (thief).
