No Man Of Honour Will Defect To PDP – Oshiomhole

We Will Listen To Genuine Grievances From Party Members

Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, stated that anyone who left the Peoples Democratic Party because of its alleged crimes against the country and has plan to return back to the party is not a man of honour.

He also took his stand that at no point has he lost sleep over the crisis within the party and the plan of R-APC to defect from the party.

While speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Oshiomhole commented on the alleged plan of the aggrieved members to leave APC on Thursday.

In his statement, he stated that no aggrieved member in the ruling party should be seen returning to PDP.

He said, “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 the PDP on the account of their gross mismanagement, abuse of the treasury and all of the crimes that the PDP committed; I don’t see them, whatever their irritations, that can be justifications, to return to that house.

“All we need to do is to play back their own tape about what the PDP represents and why they left. I still hold the view that you cannot vomit in the morning and convert it to lunch in the afternoon, if you have honour. That position still remains the same.”

Oshiomhole explained that the party could distinguish between those who had genuine complaints and those he described as mercenaries.

He said the party will pay attention to genuine grievances but would not change its core valuea to accommodate the mercenaries who has personal reasons.

However, he did not state the people that falls under this different categories.

Oshiomhole said, “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 issues, 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 in my acceptance speech when I was elected, that we acknowledge the fact that there are people with genuine complaints. For such people, we are ready to listen and act on the basis of justice, fairness, no arrogance and exclusion. 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 units.

“We have the records that tell us who won elections where. I am a tested fighter. I fought them from 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.“