A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Lagos, Chief Bode George has described, former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro as a” desperate sinking man in need of psychiatric help.”
George remarked thus in a statement released to the press.
A statement credited to Obanikoro accused Geroge and Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe of manipulating the Lagos State governorship primaries in favour of Jimi Agbaje, the flag bearer of the PDP, in the gubernatorial election in Lagos State.
George’s press statement below:
“One has refrained from engaging Senator Musiliu Obanikoro despite his gross and alarmist provocations. I have deliberately remained distant and quiet, ignoring the stark obscenities of a desperate and obsessed man who is apparently incapable of absorbing the reality of his defeat by a well-bred and better man.
“For Obanikoro to claim in sheer ludicrousness that I, even remotely, identify with any intimations of violence is utter lunacy and blind, vindictive madness. Surely, Obanikoro is possessed and obsessed. He needs immediate psychiatric treatment. He is a desperate sinking man, grasping and thrashing in self inflicted chasm.
“What is the pedigree of this young man who has abandoned the typical African deference to Elders? We know who sprung from violence and banditry. We know whose antecedents reek in noisome, vagrant, untidy ruffianism.
“Politics is not a do or die affair. No civilized person with impeccable pedigree will seek a tacky refuge in destruction and ruin simply because he has lost in a free and fair contest. Obanikoro should go quietly into that good night if he means well for Lagos.
“Enough of his desperate tantrums and lunacy. Lagos has moved on, far beyond the primitive wretchedness of little, ill-bred hooligans.”
Obanikoro has taken his case to the court in Abuja. Hearing continues on 23 December.