I Challenge You, Reuben Abati To A Street Fight -Oshiomhole

Edo North Senator at the National Assembly, Adams Oshiomhole, has dared Arise TV anchor, Reuben Abati  to a street fight.

Oshiomhole issued the challenge on Tuesday on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, in reaction to a supposed Abati statement on the same channel, which he found unpalatable.

The former Edo Governor did not directly mention the journalist’s name, but his allusions were clear indicative enough.

Describing the said Abati’s comments as mischievous and disrespectful, the former National Chairman of the All Progress Congress (APC) challenged the latter to a street fight as a way of resolving it.

“I was particularly shocked that a senior editor could ask the immediate past governor of Delta state, Okowa, mischievously, I must say, with all due respect, ‘did you get permission from Oshiomhole that your sins will now be forgiven before you decided to decamp to APC?’” Oshiomhole said.

“How can you ask that? What is my status? I am in the legislature. Is the legislature responsible for the prosecution of anyone wrong in any way?” Oshiomhole questioned.

“The man who made that statement was at a time invited by the EFCC after he was Jonathan’s spokesman, shamelessly. Thereafter, EFCC arrested him. Was I the one who granted him bail to leave PDP to go where he is?” he stated.

“Even on Labour Day, he was saying some labour leaders who had been involved in picketing and fought for workers; he could not even credit me with the fact that I led the protest. This is a guy who wrote ‘Oshiomhole the people’s president’ when I was president of the NLC.

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“Rather than crediting me with that, he said when they leave NLC, they now go and become governors,” Oshiomhole said.

And in apparent reference to Abati being running mate to Buruji Kashamu in the 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election under the People’s Democratic Party, Adams Oshiomhole questioned:

“If you are angry because you wanted to be a deputy governor and you lost an election in Ogun state, is that the reason you are paranoid, that every opportunity you want to abuse me?

“ If you want to abuse me, don’t hide behind the TV; let’s meet in the street and fight it out,” he said.