FORMER Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, was on Wednesday humiliated, booed and nearly beaten up by workers at a colloquium organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress in the Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.
Oshiomhole, our reporter said came down heavily on those agitating for the restructuring of Nigeria which drew angry reactions from the workers who hushed him to silence at the venue.
Oshiomhole one of the five discussants at the colloquium in Abuja themed ‘The Labour Movement and the future of a United Nigeria: What Role for Restructuring'', our source revealed incurred the wrath of the Nigerian workers when he said those who lost out in the 2015 general elections - the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) were the ones spearheading the campaign for a restructuring of the country.
But the audience reportedly cut in with shouts of “no, no, no,” as they disagreed openly with his view on the current call for the restructuring of the country.
Reports say it took the intervention of the Chairman of the event, Justice Alpha Belgore, the President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, and others to restore calm after 10 minutes of holding down the event.
Belgore’s pleas of “Please, please, please ladies and gentlemen please, comrades please,” fell on deaf ears for the first five minutes. However, the President of the NLC was able to calm the angry crowd down and peace was restored.
Even Oshiomhole unavoidably had to eat the humble pie and appealed afterwards to the crowd reminding the workers that they had a tradition.
He stated, “I have posed some questions, but I want to move on to the second leg of my statement. Will you please allow me to make my statement? I believe that we have a tradition of a prime conversation, and in this programme, there is an opportunity for what lawyers might call cross-examination; any of you who knows me, knows that I have to speak my mind. I don’t have to be right. Allow me to state my position and then you can disagree.”
Continuing Oshiomhonle said, “They are the ones who are quick to make extremely provocative statements, they purport to speak for a section of the country and even most people in those sections of the country don’t even know them. I started by asking what is restructuring? And I think the issues in conversation are not different from where we are coming from.
“… there is no Nigeria, there can’t be any Nigeria Labour Congress. So, we do need to understand that when they talk and you are silent, the consequences of outcomes, you will not be immune from it. And these double-breasted speakers will be negotiators in foreign capitals while you will become refugees quartered in IDP camps, not induced by terrorists, but induced by political recklessness.
“Having made this preliminary comment, I just want to ask who started this debate, who and when and why? I want to plead with you to please try to listen. I didn’t intend to entertain anybody because I feel strong about these issues. I have had the privilege of working with the most subordinated positions in the past.
“If you don’t know where the rain started falling, you won’t probably know where we got the umbrella to protect ourselves and I am not talking of a tattered political umbrella. We have been in this current dispensation since 1999. Somehow just after 2015 general elections, there was a power change which Nigerians voted for, people who have simply just lost out that is how they knew those words called restructuring…”
It was at this point that workers started shouting at him. When he resumed, he said that “the unity of Nigeria is not negotiable.”
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