Edo Members-Elect Want Buhari, Tinubu To Call Obaseki To Order

14 members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly on Thursday cried out over what they alleged as the aloofness of party elders to what they alleged as the reign of dictatorship being perpetrated against some party members.

The members-elect who have not been inaugurated while speaking at a press conference in Abuja specifically called on President Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the party’s governors to save the party from distress in the forthcoming governorship election.

They also raised the alarm over threats to the life of the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole arising from what they described as threats from Governor Godwin Obaseki.

“We the members-elect of the Edo state House of Assembly this day  30th day of January, 2020, intend to use this medium to express our worries about the happenings in Edo State APC and the seeming aloofness of some of our leaders which has created another Emperor in Edo State, in the person of governor Godwin Obaseki.

“We want to draw the attention of our President, Muhammadu Buhari, the National leader of our Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Working Committee  of our Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Party leaders  and members across the country and indeed all Nigerians to the continuous insults and threat to the life of our National Chairman, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole and other party members in Edo state.

“Two days ago, precisely 28th January, 2020, Governor Obaseki was on record which was widely circulated on social media and main stream media, threatening the National Chairman of our Party, Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole.

“It would be recalled that we had persistently drawn the attention of the world to the series of attacks on members of our great party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) across the state on different occasions just because they bear opposing views from that of Governor Godwin Obaseki and the government of the day in Edo. The homes of most leaders of the APC in Edo State have been marked for demolition by gtovernor Obaseki.

“Several petitions were written to the Inspector General of Police from 18th June, 2019 after the attack on us at Golden Tulip hotel in Benin City, but nobody has been held responsible for that attack yet.

“We want to believe that because the leaders of our Party across the country have been quiet to call Governor Godwin Obaseki to order, he has been further emboldened to kill everybody due to his desperate ambition for a second term.  He has recruited a killer squad in Edo State and their mandate is to kill Comrade Oshiomhole and other APC leaders. So he has continued to create crisis and disrupt public peace.

“We demand that President Mahammadu Buhari, the National leader of the party, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the governors of the APC governed states call Governor Godwin Obaseki to order as he is known to have set several precedents in our Party that may be detrimental to our great party in the nearest future.

“The Inspector General of Police should wake up to his responsibility of protecting lives, properties and maintaining public peace in Edo state by standing against infringement on rights of Edo people. We beg him to advise the Edo CP to be professional in his duty.”

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