Northern Youth group under the auspices of Arewa Youth Parliament (AYP), has slammed Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, over what they considered as his unpalatable utterances in recent times against the past administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, the Chairman of the group, Malam Ibrahim Garba Rigachikun, said it was unfortunate that Governor Oshiomhole has abandoned the respect attached to the office of a State Governor and has become an emergency critic of the past administration under former President, Jonathan.
Malam Rigachikjn said, “Governor Oshiomhole’s unguarded utterances against the Jonathan administration are unacceptable.
“Edo State Governor, Adam’s Oshiomhole has abandoned the respect of the office of State Governor and has become an emergency critic of the out-gone Jonathan administration.
“It seems he is still in campaign mode, or probably the bug of labour unionism when he held sway as NLC President. This is quite worrisome.
“Now he has become a professional attacker of the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan, who is supposed to have been peacefully resting after serving the nation to the best of his ability.
“To deny the former President the peace that comes with retirement is Oshiomhole’s political misadventure.
“Governor Oshiomhole first started with a Tale by Moonlight, when he claimed that a certain US official told him that the officials of the Jonathan administration were involved in large scale financial scandals. Few days later a rebuttal by the US officials sent Governor Oshiomhole’s tale to the dustbin of history.
“Not done with that misadventure, the Governor proceeded to grant an interview to a weekend newspaper, where he said Nigerians would stone former President Jonathan if they knew how much his administration wronged them. Again, the man wanted to score cheap political gains by using the media to rewrite history on the basis of propaganda.
“We therefore wish to state that The Governor’s media propaganda against the former President is uncalled for and unsuitable in this cooling off period, when Nigerians were expecting a string of developmental projects as promised them by his party during the 2015 electioneering campaigns.
“We are aware that the Governor is not the official spokesman of the new APC Federal Government and should allow those whose duty it is to do their job – the two Spokesmen of the government.
“We also advise him to switch from the campaign propaganda mode and emergency radicalism to do the needful to the people of Edo State.
“We hoped the season of propaganda would have been over after May 29th and what mattered would be development of infrastructure, only for the Governor to attempt to rewrite history, before our very eyes. “As a group of non-partisan young men, we believe the nation should move forward, away from unprogressive lamentations and hauling of unfounded allegations”.
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