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| Gov. Oshiomhole |
By Prince Kelly Udebhulu.
ATTACK 1:
Gov. Oshiomhole: " ...Honourable minister of works used armed mobile policemen, over a dozen, to intimidate the voters in Esan North East, Uromi on the 20th April council election..."
Response 1:
Onolememen says Oshiomhole is a talkative; mouth runs faster than his head.
"The minister of works, Mike Onolememen has said that the Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, who had accused him of using armed policemen to intimidate voters in weekend’s local government election, talks faster than he reasons. The Minister told Channels Television in Abuja that he could not have intimidated voters in his local government where election did not take place because of lack of electoral materials for the election. He said he was at a polling station in his ward with his security details who are plain clothes operatives and other aides but was told that there were insufficient electoral materials and therefore voting could not hold. He said as a minister, he was entitled to some level of protection by security operatives just like Mr. Oshiomhole."
Gov. Oshiomhole replied 26th April, 2013 after the election conducted on the 24th APRIL was cancelled by EDSIEC.
Speaking during the swearing in ceremony of the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of Oredo, Ikpoba Okha and Esan West Local Government Areas in Benin City today, the governor said, “twice the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission ( EDSIEC ) tried to conduct election in Esan North East and twice the PDP disrupted it. “When I swore in the first set of local government chairmen, I made the point about how the honourable minister of works, used armed mobile policemen, over a dozen, to intimidate the voters in Esan North East and subsequently compelled the DPO and the EO to announce the cancellation of the election and he went on television to say how could he have disturbed an election that was not held.
“Let me repeat. I did not accuse him of undermining an election that was held, we accused him of illegally using the police, conniving with the DPO to order the postponement of the election. He caused the election to be postponed because he had no chance of winning.
“The evidence was clear on that Saturday in Esan land, in Uromi you had canopies belonging to ACN , the other canopy for PDP supporters and just looking at the canopies you can see where the majority were and that was why he insisted that election must be postponed and he misused federal instrument to force that postponement in clear breach of the electoral act,” the governor noted. According to him, “today, we could have sworn in a candidate from the local government but again he used hired thugs to confiscate election materials, carry fake result sheets and even detained people at Uromi police station.”
Referees:
On Wednesday, 24th April, 2013, PDP held their annual meeting at Abuja and Works Minister, Mike Onolememen was in Abuja, he did not even shown up at Uromi during the said election, he was at a Congress meeting at Aso Vila with other top PDP stake holders.
We invite the audience and observers to evaluate and analyze
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| Mike Onolememen |
Osa Nosa-Odia wrote:
Immediately he (Gov. Oshiomhole) was swore-in as the Executive Governor of Edo State on Nov. 2008, he took on Gen. Dr. S.O. Ogbemudia (RTD) a two time Governor of Mid-west and Bendel state, the father of the modern day Edo & Delta States, he insulted him on tv, radio stations across the land, he even went as far as withdrawning vehicles purchased for the elder stateman by the past administration. he called the baba all sorts of names, and those who were suppose to caution him were all laughing.
Prior to the April 14th 2012 governorship election, he took on Chief T. Anenih, the Present PDP BOT chairman, Former Minister of Works (FMW), Former National Chiarman of SDP (Hope '93) and a political leader of a very high repute, someone that have contributed to the political development of Nigeria, in every gathering be it religous, political, social, he was insulting him, calling him all sorts of name, persons who were suppose to caution him, saw nothing wrong in what he was doing, even kids where encouraged to do same.
Now, in 2013 pre and post Local Govt elections, this same governor brought out his old self by insulting the Esama of Benin Kingdom ( Esama of the Universe), Chief G.O. Igbinedion CFR, a man that single handedly took development from Benin-City to Okada town, and turn the word Okada to a National household name, the highest employer of labour after goverment in the state, the Honourary Romania ambassador to Mid west Region (Edo&Delta states of Nigeria) someone that have contributed the socio-economical development of the Edo race, the most influential black man in West Africa. A governor of a state deem it necessary to come on air and pass abuses on such a great asset to his state, and nobody is seeing anything wrong about it.
If these great men have be insulted publicly by an elected governor, and traditional, Religional, Political, and Professional institutions are all silent about these new trend, then my question is who is the next Great fellow to be humiliated and insulted in Edo state?
...to be continued
By Prince Kelly Udebhulu
