A conversation with Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, a chieftain of the Labour Party(LP) and President of the One Love Foundation.
On the Supreme Court judgment on the new naira notes
I think it is too late. They’re playing chess game with us. The so called elites who have become merchants of misery. Now, what’s the justification. If you know that it was not a good idea by Emefiele or even by the President. Why do Nigeria have to go through these issues? Why do so many people have to die before they can retrace their steps? That’s the reason that I said they’re playing a chess game with us. President Muhammadu Buhari, his co-travellers and Emefiele, the CBN(Central Bank of Nigeria) governor are merchants of miseries.
On the call for the sack of Emefiele
As a matter of fact, Emefiele is not supposed to be the CBN governor. He is very unqualified because you cannot be a judge in your court. You know that Emefiele has a link to private banks. When you have a bank you are not supposed to be CBN governor. No where in the world. It’s only in Nigeria that it has happened. It has happened in a very negative way. It has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. He is a man that should have apologized to Nigerians and resigned honourably because he was holding a position when he squandered money to contest for the Presidency. I have attempted to take him to court that he wasn’t fit to be CBN governor. It was in his time that racketeering in the banks flourished because they were selling our money at funerals, marriages etc.
On some states who participated in taking the federal government to court on the result of the presidential election stepping aside
I would be speculating if I told you that I know the reason. I am sure that they were advised by their lawyers because if matters are already before the Supreme Court and there are so many interests and groups it now becomes complicated and complex. I think because of the complexity perhaps they have been advised to drop their own while the others continue on the case so that we can have a speedy trial such that the fraudulent INEC and Tinubu led APC government would not have the time to be inaugurated. If we inaugurate Tinubu we are in trouble. We may not get a good verdict from the Supreme Court. If a thief is apprehended and he insists on going to the police station you should know his brother is the DPO there and you can never get justice. APC is a gang of people who have created laws and when criminals create laws for you you will not get justice in their courts. We have been robbed so nobody is celebrating. You cannot celebrate criminality. In future INEC should be prepared to have a law that rigging should be punishable by death because this is felony. When you rob a whole nation it is worse than kidnapping and armed robbery. The reason people are not too happy with Tinubu is that he is the father of all the thugs in Nigeria. You can see some videos trending where Yorubas are saying that Igbos do not belong to Lagos. People die for one Nigeria and Tinubu has not come out to condemn those threatening the Igbos. He is culpable. If people are doing what’s wrong and you remain mute it means that you.accept what they’re doing. At a gathering Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said that “you will grab power and run away with it.” It means that he was not prepared for a free and fair election. But Nigerians are not going to allow him to run away with it.
On claims that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, is sponsoring some Labour Party (LP) candidates for the state House of Assembly polls coming up on Saturday, March 11th 2023.
I have debunked it. I call Obaseki a General. He is not a democrat. He is drowning. He went to APC, the party cannot recover. He went to PDP, the party is on life support. We cannot let somebody with such an infection to come and infect the Labour Party. Oshiomhole, who pretends to be on the side of the masses by wearing Khaki in the day while he wears lace material at night, is the propagandist flying this kite that Obaseki is defecting to LP so as to split our votes. It is not true. Our candidates are verifiable. I was with them on Friday at the state party Secretariat where we had a meeting. We don’t want House of Assembly members who cannot discuss robustly. We want competent people, people with character, people who can represent the interest of the people. That’s what we are about to do and are going to do. We don’t have any unholy alliance with Obaseki or APC. The PDP and APC are disgruntled because of their bad governance and as such people have resolved to take our country back through the LP.
