Oshiomhole Fires Back: Atiku Has Defected Multiple Times, Okowa Only Once

According to Edo North Senator Adams Oshiomhole, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has no moral right to condemn former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s decision to abandon the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in favor of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to Oshiomhole, Atiku, a serial defector, cannot question Okowa, who has only defected once.

The former Edo State Governor made the statement on Wednesday at the Independent Television and Radio’s 28th Founders’ Day Lecture, titled “Nigeria, where are we going?”.
Oshiomhole noted that Atiku, as a sitting Vice President, switched from the party that gave him a platform, joined another party, received its presidential ticket, contested and lost an election.

He went on to say that the Supreme Court ruled that there was nothing wrong with his actions, thus the PDP chairman has no moral footing to chastise them because switching parties is his specialty.

“I was listening to those who sought to assess the significance of the Edo-Delta reunification with Dr. Okowa and Governor Oborevwori joining the APC.

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“And those who are talking, including people like Atiku, who helped us realize by his action that a sitting vice president can decamp and take the position of a vice president to an opposition party and still retain the position and Supreme Court has pronouncement on that”

“At the time, I was the NLC’s unofficial opposition president. He subsequently proceeded to Bourdillon, Lagos, to join another party named Action Congress, where he ran for president and failed.

“This same guy who is louder in his criticism of Okowa deserted back to the PDP, contested and lost, then decamped to the APC and contested against former President Muhammadu Buhari, losing. He returned to the PDP, contested against President Bola Tinubu, and lost,” he stated.

He expressed surprise that Atiku was attacking a man who had only switched political parties once.