BREAKING NEWS: Oshiomhole begged to join PDP but was turned down – Metuh

By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—NATIONAL leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday,
said Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, begged to be a member of
the party severally, but his request was turned down, just as it urged
him to tell Nigerians how many times he begged.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement,
said the Edo State governor, in 2007, contacted the PDP for its
gubernatorial ticket to run as governor of the state, but the request
was rejected on the ground that if adhered to, the party's zoning
arrangement would be distorted.
Metuh said: "The same PDP, which Oshiomhole went on all fours, begging
to join has suddenly become the "party of rogues" because of his
desperation to justifythe massive rigging and democratic aberration
that was called local governmentelections in Edo State.
"In 2007, Oshiomhole begged to be given anopportunity under the
umbrella, but we considered his governorship aspiration an assault on
the existing zoning formula in thestate and quietly turned him down.
Again, in2012, he once more came, cap in hand, and our great party
again rejected him. Is Oshiomhole just realising how bad our party is,
when he was all the while begging for membership?"
But reacting, Oshiomhole described the allegations as laughable and
ridiculous, querying what was attractive in PDP that would make him
beg to be a member of the party.
Reacting to PDP's statement, Special Adviserto Oshiomhole on Media,
Kassim Afegbua, urged Metuh to hide his head in shame for trying to
sell what he termed blatant lies to the unsuspecting public. He said:
''It is only a party of rogues that can truly possess such
dis-ingenuous traits to rake deliberate mud at their opponents to
score cheap points. Butthank God the people have become wiser and can
read in-between the lines those who speak the truth and those who are
gifted as liars."