Reverend Father Andrew Obinyan, the Chaplain of the Edo State Government House in Benin City, is the latest casualty of the power play in Osadebey Avenue where the edifice is situated.
It was gathered that Father Obinyan, who has been the government house chaplain for more than eight years now, had been earlier given hints by the powers that be in the state that his new found love for political power whereby he has openly confessed that he is destined to succeed incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki on November 12th, is not in tune with what is in the offing.
And in this wise he was been put under the radar to confirm if he was play acting or serious with his dream. When it was confirmed that he was not acting a comedy script a message was said to have been passed to him that he together with his team (church workers) should pack their baggages, equipment and other materials and exit Osadebey Avenue.
“But when it seemed that he was showing no sign of obeying the instruction he was given, the security personnel inside the government house were detailed to pack his things out of the place.
“Father Obinyan, who also doubles as the Parish Priest of St. Francis Catholic Church in Ekenwa, a suburb of Benin City, had no choice but to join in the process of the packing out of the government house this evening(Friday, January 19th),” a credible source divulged.
Meanwhile, gist is that Governor Obaseki will in days to come go further to take some drastic actions against those opposed to his game of godfatherism as the latest signals from the national hierachy of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) is that his choice of a successor should not be forced on other party members.
