THE Edo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has
described as irresponsible journalism media reports alleging that the
state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has dipped his hands into the
coffers of the state to build a N10 billion mansion in his home town,
Iyambo.
The ACN, in a statement by its publicity secretary, Mr Dan Owegie,
noted that the entire report was cooked up “by the desperate Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the state” which he said is confronted with
obvious electoral disaster in the coming July governorship election.
Describing the PDP’s allegation at a press conference where “they
displayed purported aerial video clips and photographs of the said
building” as spurious, the party said the “Edo PDP has gone ahead to
launch a massive campaign of calumny and infamy against the person of
the governor on the internet, raising spurious allegations that bear
very little or no relationship with the truth.”
The party spokesman noted that the building in question was
Oshiomhole’s three bedroom duplex built over 20 years ago and it was
only being expanded to include three more bedrooms.
Mr Owegie, describing the PDP’s campaign as the ranting of a drowning
man, said the party should go and clear its image of very many
questionable circumstances surrounding its leadership in the state.
The ACN noted that the ACN governor and ACN standard bearer in the
coming poll “is too disciplined to dip his hands into the tax payers’
treasury to extend his personal house as being branded by the
opposition.”
The party said the mass exodus from the PDP to the ACN which the
former is jittery about, boiled down to the development initiatives of
Oshiomhole and other ACN governors in the country, adding that only
recently, the PDP tried to stop its women leader, Mrs Lucy Omagbon from
defecting into the ACN, but to no avail.
The statement said the defeat awaiting the PDP in the coming election
would be unprecedented in the history of election in the state.
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