How Obaseki sponsored #endbadgovernance protest with N200m – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo State, has accused the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, of sponsoring the #endbadgovernance protest in the state to the tune of N200million. 

APC made the accusation through Comrade Orobosa Omo-Ojo, the Director of Publicity, Edo APC Governorship Campaign Council, while responding to the state government’s allegation that the party is orchestrating mayhem in the state ahead of the forthcoming guber poll. 

According to Comrade Omo-Ojo, “the continued rehash of phantom puny stories by Governor Godwin Obaseki and his godson, Asue Ighodalo, is a reflection of their fear of reprisals from Edo State people who recently capitalized on the End Bad Governance protest that was sponsored by Obaseki against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to search for their hidden palliatives which the governor stored in the houses of PDP leaders. 

“Edo people will recall how the governor organized the anti-federal government protest at Oba Ovoranmwen Square with N200 million, all in his bid to demonize Tinubu and APC and punish Edo people who he has deprived of their palliatives.

“But contrary to Obaseki’s expectation, while he was addressing his PDP members and political aides he gathered as protesters, the real protesters harkened the call by APC to locate their rice and other palliatives hidden in Edo State Government warehouses and houses of PDP members.” 

Going further, Comrade Omo-Ojo posited that “since our charge to Edo people to take back their rice, over four warehouses and private homes have been bursted by hungry men and women to collect what rightly belongs to them. 

“The fear of losing the entire hidden grains had led to Obaseki’s sudden hatred for organisers of the protest who he now calls, hoodlums and thugs. Same group of persons he praised for causing hardship on the streets of Edo State.

“Obaseki and Ighodalo’s incessant noise is a cover up for the grand economic corruption the two friends have committed against Edo people. It is also a panic measure by them to curry support in the face of impending disqualification of PDP and its candidate by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), over the forging of voter’s card.”