Oyegun Has Replied Akande and Others.. Read What He said..

John Odigie-Oyegun

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun yesterday dismissed reports that he was compromised in his management of the party saying such persons were themselves without conscience and that they would soon eat their own words.
The chairman who spoke while receiving a delegation of South-South/ Southeast Professionals made his comments in apparent response to the assertions against his management of the party by his predecessor, Chief Bisi Akande.

Akande had in a letter on Monday lambasted the party’s national leadership, saying that it lacked the capability to resolve the quagmire raging crisis.

But in what appears like a reaction, Odigie-Oyegun while recalling his years in civil service and private business said no amount of monetary inducement would make him to compromise his hard earned reputation.
The chairman, however, said he was not losing sleep as a result of the allegations and indictment against him.

He said: “There is nothing they have not said about me but when you ask what has the man done, one of their reports said the present executive cannot win us elections in 2019! Good Lord! You’ve not even finished with 2015, you’re talking about 2019. They also talked about the elites of the North against the people of the Southwest.   Am I from the North? Am I the one organising them?
“The one that annoys me is the attempt to rubbish 75 solid years of a character that I’ve put together. They said  I took gratification, gratification to what purpose? The only people who can say that are the people who don’t know my background or history.
“I was just over 30 when I started joining teams that were buying aircraft from Holland and Seattle in United States. That could not corrupt me. I was on the board of the Railways,  NPA and the rest of them. If all these did not make me corrupt, how can I at 76 take money, money from who? To do what?

“I was chairman of FHA. Let them go and check the record. I did not award a single piece of land to myself  or to any member of my family. What they call Satellite Town today, myself and Fola Alade went out physically inspecting land for building low cost housing and we finally settled for low cost houses at Badagry. I would have settled for a piece of land. I could have acquired acres of land and the compensation government was paying would have covered that.
“Out of love for my country and democracy and resistance to the continuation of military rule, I was on exile for four years during which my economic base was totally obliterated. By the time I came back, I was barely carrying a dead bone.”

“Obasanjo is a close friend. Throughout his eight years tenure, I didn’t enter Aso Rock to curry favour. That is the kind of person I am. When they say I’m taking money from a senator, to do what? I am not a senator. I cannot vote. I cannot by being chairman pronounce him as Senate President or Senate Leader.
“So, what is he giving me money for? How many people know me personally? It is annoying. It is dirty. It is crude . It is unbecoming and it can only be people who are totally devoid of conscience at any level of humanity that can do things of that nature.

“It doesn’t make me lose sleep because I have God who is so protective of me that the people who have done this thing will eventually eat their own words. I have no doubt about that.”
Speaking earlier, Emeka Ugwu-Oju, President of the South East South South Professionals, Emeka Ugwu-Oji pledged the forum’s unalloyed support to the embattled chairman of the APC.
He said “We have come to pay our respect and show solidarity to the chairman of the party whose integrity and hard work has stirred the party to victory in the space of one year he assumed the chairmanship position of the party.”

Source: Vanguard