
“Now one Honorable—he wasn’t a commissioner, he wasn’t in government, he wasn’t a government contractor—but he was a respected and responsible leader of the party, PDP. He left PDP to come and join APC when I was chairman and I interpreted his name into our vernacular. Now you have come to APC. You have been with PDP that specialize in obe… obe means evil. Now that you have left the party that specializes in obe, you are now going to live up to your father’s name.”
“I wanted to ask one of them who was once arrested under Jonathan and Jonathan’s wife… Was his sins forgiven? Did he have agreement with me that he should be released?”
Oshiomhole maintained that his comment was simply a metaphor tied to the individual’s name and a call for character reform, not a blanket pardon for wrongdoing.