Edo 2020
Ize-Iyamu Replies Osifo: You Are Obaseki’s Lackey!
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City
Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, APC candidate for the Edo Governorship election, has rubbished questions on his candidacy by Labour Party’s candidate, Mr. Isaiah Osifo, and accused him of being a lackey of Governor Godwin Obaseki planted in Labour Party.
In a statement on Saturday, by Mr. John Mayaki, the Director of Communication and Media of the Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organization, the APC candidate berated Osifo for allegedly availing himself to be used as a mouthpiece for the PDP’s smear campaign and for the spread of spread of misinformation.
Rubbishing Osifo’s assertions on Ize-Iyamu’s trial over the alleged N700million received for the 2015 PDP campaign, the APC campaign expressed wonder why the Labour Party candidate failed to mention other PDP officials who were being tried with Ize-Iyamu in the case.
As recent as June, Dr. Isaiah Osifo was a member of the PDP where he indicated interest in the party’s ticket as he routinely does every four years to enjoy momentary news mentions.
“We found it incongruous that as a PhD holder Dr. Isaiah Osifo willingly sacrificed his integrity to join in the ignorant smear campaign of the PDP which unfortunately equates being named to a case where no court pronouncement has been made as evidence of wrongdoing.”
“As recent as June, Dr. Isaiah Osifo was a member of the PDP where he indicated interest in the party’s ticket as he routinely does every four years to enjoy momentary news mentions.
“We urge Edo people not to heed the words of political jobbers and businessmen who only surface every election cycle to blackmail desperados like Mr. Godwin Obaseki into either purchasing their voice or silence.”
“The problem with people like Osifo is that they have no true mind of their own and they do not care how their actions affect the democracy of the state, especially the chances of mushroom parties growing into a relevant force.
“The concerted attack on the person of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, even to the point of planting charlatans in mushroom parties to portray a false cross-party alliance, only shows that Mr. Godwin Obaseki is running scared and he knows what is now obvious to everyone that he stands no chance at the polls on the 19th of September. We want to assure him that he cannot avoid what has already been destined for him.”
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