The candidate of the PDP in the September 28 Edo State Governorship
Election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has said that he had in the past few
days decided to seek the face of God to know the steps to take, after
INEC declared Godwin Obaseki winner of the controversial election which
many observers have condemned as non transparent and non credible. He
said that he heard the call to pursue the matter and recover the mandate
which the people had clearly given to him and the PDP.
Speaking to a mammoth crowd of PDP supporters and members of the Civil
Society at his campaign office in Benin City, prior to a protest march
that went through the city centre, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu said that he
had heard the call of Edo people to seek redress. He said he recognizes
that the struggle for the mandate is beyond his discretion because it
belongs to Edo people.
The PDP candidate said that Edo people should be rest assured that the
robbery will not stand because there is overwhelming evidence of the
fraud which was committed by INEC in connivance with the APC.
He enjoined the people to remain patient through an expected long drawn
legal battle that will end in the Supreme Court.
Ize-Iyamu upbraided Governor Adams Oshiomhole who he said was desperate
to impose Mr. Godwin Oshiomhole so as to cover up the peoples money
which Oshiomhole looted. He said that Oshiomhole’s days as a governor
are numbered and that he will soon become a former governor at which
time he will no longer have immunity from prosecution for his financial
crimes against Edo people. He said that Godwin Obaseki’s tenure will be
cut short and Oshiomhole will not escape probe.
Pastor Ize-Iyamu condemned the failure of the police to arrest APC’s
State Youth Leader and known thug, Osakpamwan Eriyo, who in broad
daylight the police allowed to disrupt the collation of result in Oredo
Ward two because the APC lost his ward. He said the police should effect
his arrest in a matter of days or the people will arrest him.
Ize-Iyamu, before the march proceeded told the crowd to observe a
peaceful protest procession. The crowd of protesters numbering thousands
went round some parts of the state capital. Among the protesters were
leaders of the PDP, including the state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih.
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