{"id":10803,"date":"2020-08-04T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=10803"},"modified":"2020-08-04T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:35:29","slug":"edo-election-we-are-ready-to-meet-violence-with-violence-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/edo-election-we-are-ready-to-meet-violence-with-violence-oshiomhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Election: We Are Ready To Meet Violence With Violence \u2014 Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the party would not watch while Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP violently rig the September 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 Governorship Election, saying \u2018\u2019we will meet violence with violence.\u2019\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview yesterday morning, Oshiomhole, who restated the reasons he is opposing Obaseki, and backing Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu picked holes in Obaseki\u2019s alleged threat to deal with APC members and supporters in the guise of dealing with trouble makers.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Governor Obaseki warned of stiff penalties against perpetrators of violence ahead of the\u00a0poll and condemned the July 25 display by thugs at the gate of the Palace of the Omo N\u2019Oba N\u2019Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II: the Oba of Benin.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki warned those with intent to disrupt public peace; stating that he is determined to carry out his primary responsibility of maintaining order and protecting lives and property as the Chief Security Officer of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Obaseki\u2019s threat, Oshiomhole said: \u2018\u2019if they want violence, we will give them violence.\u2019\u2019 He said he is against Obaseki because the governor has not met the expectations of Edo people, abandoned the development plan of the state, wrote a petition to the President to get Dr Pius Odubu dropped as NDDC chairman; as well as a commissioner of the NDDC from Edo, making the state to lose two positions in the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Regretting that he worked with Obaseki in 2016\u00a0 without asking for his certificate, Oshiomhole said\u00a0 he was given wrong accounts of Ize-Iyamu four years, adding that Ize-Iyamu had not been a governor and he could not have said that the APC candidate is a thief.<\/p>\n<p>However, responding Oshiomhole\u2019s claims on ARISE Television programme, Special Adviser to Governor Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, challenged him to tell Nigerians the truth about the circumstances that led to his removal as APC chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to the narrative being advanced by the sacked national chairman that he was a victim of power play, Nigerians who have followed the events that led to Oshiomhole\u2019s ouster closely, can attest to the fact that he was a victim of his own indiscretion and unholy machinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, in Edo State, Oshiomhole was the powerful force that millions of Edo people fought against, so that the governor could breathe and deliver good governance to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Edo State,\u00a0Oshiomhole turned against Governor Obaseki when the governor failed to yield to his subservience and his grand plot to rule by proxy. He literally invaded the Edo APC and set up parallel structures to hijack it. His predecessor, Chief Odigie-Oyegun allowed the state\u2019s structure of the APC to carry out its activities without any interference. To Oshiomhole\u2019s immoderation, Edo State is today a PDP state and we are free from his inanities.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: Vanguard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the party would not watch while Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP violently rig the September 19th\u00a0 Governorship Election, saying \u2018\u2019we will meet violence with violence.\u2019\u2019 In an interview yesterday morning, Oshiomhole, who restated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Obaseki-and-oshiomhole.jpg?fit=780%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}