Pioneer National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has explained his decision to take on critics of his political leadership style, saying at 80 years and now closer to his creator, he would not allow his name to be dragged in the mud for personal interests.He spoke Friday in Abuja through his Public Affairs Adviser and Chairman, organising committee for his 80th birthday celebrations, Chief Ray Murphy.
Morphy, who described Chief Odigie-Oyegun as a ‘stainless politician’ even at 80, said the Benin Chief is a perfect gentle man who has kept his name clean right and fair over the years, adding that even when he left office as national chairman of the APC, he has never engaged in any battle with anybody in the party until recently when unfounded accusations were made against him.
Which was why it became necessary as his Public Affairs Adviser to begin to take on those things. We took them on not because we were interested in just replying, but because at 80, what time does he have to build his name? If people throw mud at you when you are 80, what time do you have to clean it up?
Murphy also explained why a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the current national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, were absent at the state held in Chief Odigie-Oyegun’s honour in Benin.
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