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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just few days after Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former two-time governor of Ogun State launched his book, <strong>Battlelines Adventures in Journalisn and Politics</strong>, to mark his 80th birthday, Senator Femi Okurounmu has come out heavy on the All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, calling him a liar, traitor and a double faced man.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Senator
Okurounmu, 80,  ;whose  ;memoirs, The Dream, ; is billed for launch, disclosed this in an
interview with The Editor newspaper.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the interview, Okorounmu, who was the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on the 2014 National Conference, was unsparing, describing Osoba as an unfaithful apostle of the June 12 struggle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Those
who know Osoba know that he has always been a double-faced politician. One
face, he will want people to see him as a progressive, on the other face; he is
working with the security forces. Osoba has always been an agent of the
security forces.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He
has one leg in the military and the other leg in the progressives’ camp. If he
has never been told that, I am telling you now. So, when he narrated what he
went through in his book, of course, for anybody who is a double agent, such
person will get into trouble.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So,
he got into trouble in the early stage of the annulment of June 12 because he
has been a close collaborator with (Ibrahim) Babangida who annulled the
election. It was Babangida that sponsored Osoba’s governorship in Ogun state in
1992.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So,
we all know that Osoba was a double agent. While being a close associate of
Babangida, he was now pretending to be supporting MKO Abiola. That was what got
him into trouble with the military.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Initially,
when Abiola’s election was annulled and everybody thought it will be a short
struggle for Abiola to reclaim his mandate, Osoba pretended to be with us in
that struggle so that he can also benefit if Abiola eventually became
President.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That
pretense of being with us is what got him into trouble and he got detained. In
fact, people like Gani Fawehinmi had to go and fight for him in court. But as
soon as he realised that the struggle will not be a brief one and the military
are not prepared to handover to Abiola, he abandoned the struggle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When
the late Sani Abacha formed his five political parties, we in Afenifere decided
that we will not participate in any of the five parties. Osoba was present when
we took that decision but as soon as we left the place, he decamped and took
his followers and they all went and joined Abacha’s transition.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So,
Osoba participated fully in Abacha’s transition in all the elections conducted
from ward to local government level, Osoba’s men participated. So, he was not
part of the NADECO struggle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Osoba
is a liar and traitor. He tells lie and wants to distort history because he
knows he has betrayed Nigerians, he has betrayed the progressives cause and the
Yoruba people. I believe that anybody who participated in Abacha’s transition
betrayed Abiola. It is as simple as that. So for a traitor, he is just trying
to justify his treacherous actions and throw blames on other people. Osoba is a
traitor,” he stated.</p>

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