Edo 2020: APC call for Obaseki probe over arms importation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Media Campaign Council for Edo State governorship election on Thursday, has demanded that investigation be conducted into Governor Godwin Obaseki’s alleged arms importation, thugs’ escort and massive shootings during his re-election campaigns.

The opposition party fired at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate over shootings at Obaseki’s rally in Igueben, holding that the shootings buttressed its earlier allegation of Obaseki’s importation of guns and buses full of armed thugs in his convoy.

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Reacting, PDP spokesman Chris Nehikhare, denied the allegation levelled by the APC media campaign council against Governor Obaseki, dismissing it as false.

Prince John Mayaki, speaking on behalf of the APC Media Campaign Council, faulted what is perceived to be violent tactics by Obaseki and his thugs in an effort to intimidate any form of opposition.

“According to multiple reports confirmed by residents in Igueben and hospital’s records, chaos broke out on August 19 at Igueben, near the home of a PDP chieftain, Chief Tom Ikimi (an indigene of Igueben), when armed thugs escorting Governor Obaseki on a campaign turned on one another in a wild shooting that sent at least one person to hospital, with a leg damaged by bullets.

“While confirming the shooting that left people scampering for safety, eyewitnesses said the thugs, sourced from neighbouring states and handed deadly firearms, secretly purchased by Edo governor, had maintained a fractious relationship, as some of them reportedly belong to rival cults” Mayaki said.