Oshiomole Warns Gov Obaseki To Stop Blackmailing Him

The National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has warned Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo to stop blackmailing him and rather focus on delivery of good governance to the people.

This was contained in a statement signed by Oshiohmole’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Simon Ebegbulem, in Abuja on Tuesday.


The National Chairman of the ruling party insisted that he was attacked at his residence in Benin on Oct. 12 but Obaseki, however, in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Crusoe Osagie, said that Oshiomhole was never attacked in the state.

Oshiomhole said: “We have it on good authority that the governor (Obaseki) intends to create disaffection and crisis in the state, APC and probably dump the party for another party.

“That is why, he has embarked on this blackmail which Edo people will resist. So, he should stop blackmailing me and face governance which is why Edo people voted him into power.

“We are even more scared now that the governor is making every effort to coerce me into giving him details of my movement in Edo State. Who knows what he is plotting again. But every evil plot against me will fail.”

He alleged that the last Saturday’s siege at his residence by Obaseki’s thugs was a good example.

“Before that incident, state government-sponsored thugs have been harassing, intimidating APC members across the 18 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state because APC leaders refused to adopt his second term aspiration.

“People are being sacked in their jobs every day in the state,” he said.


Obaseki insists Oshiomole was never attacked

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