Oshiomhole Lied On UNIBEN Acid Attack – Ize-Iyamu

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has dismissed the claim by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that he poured acid on a fellow student at the University of Benin for which reason he was rusticated from the University of Benin.

Speaking for the first time on the allegation first made by Oshiomhole in a campaign rally in 2016, Ize-Iyamu said he was not the person who poured the acid and that to the contrary, that he was the one who brought the security men to rescue the victim of the attack. He said the victim of the attack exonerated him but that the university went on to sanction him among others because the attacker was never found.

Oshiomhole while fervently campaigning for Godwin Obaseki the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate in the 2016 governorship election had accused Ize-Iyamu who was the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate of pouring acid on a fellow student leading to his rustication.

Ize-Iyamu is now the APC governorship candidate and is fervently being backed for the governorship by Oshiomhole.

Responding for the first time in public to the allegation, Ize-Iyamu in an internet television interview said:

“When I was in the university, I was a member of the Pyrates Confraternity. At that time, we didn’t look at it as a cult arrangement but some people were already coming in with tendencies to create problems.

“We had this very confrontational group and one evening, somebody reported to us that they beat up a final year student who was also close to us and they mentioned the names of those involved, and we said no, this is bad.

“Don’t also forget too that I was a students’ union leader, very prominent in the students’ union congress. So, myself and some persons who heard about this complaint said let’s go and see the people concerned and talk to them.

“We went there and met with the people concerned. They opened the door for us and we were discussing the matter under a very cordial atmosphere only for some people to come in and before we knew it, there was smoke in the whole place and somebody shouted acid and was screaming.

“It was then I realised that somebody has poured acid on somebody and I quickly rushed to the security post. I brought them in and we took the young man to get first aid treatment.

“Of course, the school set up an inquiry, and the person that was affected admitted that I was the one who brought security agents and that I was able to take him in for medical attention. I asked who poured it and he said he didn’t know.

“He (victim) said he knew the face but didn’t know his name and nobody appeared to know the name and the university said since you people don’t want to mention the name, we are going to sanction all of you. Before we knew it, they expelled us.

“The reason they gave was that they expelled us for belonging to a proscribed organisation. But the long and short of it is that we were on it for two years till 1986 when the Senate held a meeting and said these guys have been punished enough, that if you look at the records, they were not the one that committed what happened, so, we were called back, graduated and then went to the Law School.”

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