Former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, has described himself as a tested fighter and a warrior.
Osoba stated this while reacting to criticisms on his person by Senator Femi Okurounmu, one of the leaders of Afenifere group.
In the past weeks, Senator Okurounmu had labelled Osoba as a traitor, a double agent and one of the Yoruba leaders who betrayed the late MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the June 12 1993 presidential election.
Attributing Senator Okurounmu’s continous attacks on his person as been borne out of envy and wickedness, he said “I will not descend into using uncouth, insulting and gutter languages like Senator Okurounmu did by referring to me as a traitor, a security agent and a double dealer. In spite of his sustained attacks on me in the last two weeks, I was unruffled, unmoved as a tested fighter and warrior”.
“ On the day I launched my book, I showed series of pictures and one was me as boxer at the age of 10. I also titled by book ‘Battlelines’ to show a lot of the blackmail that I suffered in both my professional and political life”.
“As for Okurounmu, I will describe him as a frustrated, unfulfilled politician as well as a failure in his chosen profession. His relentless attacks on me are borne out of jealousy and the major factor is envy and wickedness”.
“Yoruba language is highly proverbial and Yoruba will describe Okurounmu’s situation as somebody suffering from proverb that says ‘Ija ilara kii tan boro, Anjuwon ko see wi l’ejo’ which means ‘ when you are envious you carry that burden almost forever and an envious character cannot easily say the reason why he is envious particularly God has been too kind and generous to the person he is envious of’. That is the situation between me and Okurounmu,” Osoba said.
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