(PRESS RELEASE)
GOVERNOR OBASEKI, IN JUGGERNAUT MODE, PLANS TO ESCALATE PROTEST IN EDO
Intelligence report reaching the APC Campaign Organisation has revealed plans by Governor Obaseki to escalate the planned protest for 1st August to score very cheap political points.
We have been inundated with reports pointing in that direction, in what observers say is his last ditch effort to whip up support for his anointed candidate.
How do we curtail this juggernaut? Flowing from his earlier threat, “Nigeria will burn, and I will lead it,” Governor Obaseki is set to use this planned protest to escalate crises in Edo State; especially in Benin City, Uromi, Ekpoma, Auchi and Igarra, with the hope of intimidating political opponents.
We have it on good authority that he has started mobilising people underground, using pecuniary inducement, urging them to come out en masse on Thursday, 1st August to challenge the APC-led Federal Government.
He is promoting sedition amongst Edo people against President Tinubu and the Federal Government.
In another regard, Governor Obaseki has also withheld the Federal Government palliatives of 20 Trucks of rice, storing them in several warehouses across the three Senatorial Districts, and is refusing to distribute them to the poor of the poor as directed by the Federal Government.
Vigilant Edolites saw the subterranean warehousing of the rice in Emando area of Ekpoma, in Edo Central Senatorial District.
The Governor has given directives to his Executives to identify supporters of the ruling Percuniary Delight Party (PDP) to ensure that only those supporters will benefit from the palliatives; all in the name of raking up support for his beleaguered candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
The more he carries out these depraved acts, the heavier the albatross around Asue’s neck: poor guy!
An enraged APC member in Oredo Local Government, Mr. Eghareva Robinson, tiraded Governor Obaseki and his politics of divide and rule; he asked, “how can the Governor be so insensitive to the plights of Edo people?”
Mr. President sent in 20 Trucks of Rice to be distributed to Edo people, but he’s playing politics with it instead of distributing them and allowing the poor to benefit from it.
Additionally we are informed that the Governor has vowed not to distribute the rice until his triage, prioritising PDP members was ready before the strategic distribution; to hoodwink the people into thinking that Asue Ighodalo was the one distributing the rice.
He has perfected the plans to carry out the distribution, about two weeks to the election, to shore up support for his Asue Ighodalo.
Why should the Governor play politics at all times with Edo people? This is one of his devious tactics to present the Federal Government in bad light to Edo people, as he intensifies his plans to escalate the protest planned for Thursday.
Governor Obaseki is now at a stage where he is inexorable; he has gone rogue!!! Even the Oba of Benin who we could have called upon to intervene, has been denigrated and desecrated by him.
May whatever god he believes in touch his heart, and exhort him to stop toying with the lives of the poor of the poor, and immediately distribute the Federal Government’s rice to Edo people, so as to allow the poor breathe!!!!
Decrying all Obaseki’s shenanigans, the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo still calls on Edolites to shun any acts that could further jeopardise and or injure the peace and unity of the state.
Senator Okpebholo has given assurances that the APC will usher in a season of peachy keenness in governance when he finally mounts the saddle of leadership.
He promises to make Edo people happy again. He clearly admonishes Edo people, whatever their leaning, to avoid acts of violence or anything else that could escalate the already bad situation in the state, occasioned by Governor Obaseki’s misrule.
E-Signed:
PRINCE KASSIM AFEGBUA.
MEDIA CONSULTANT,
EDO APC CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION.
TUESDAY, 30TH JULY, 2024.
