Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has constituted a 14-man state Assets Verification Committee to probe the administration of former governor Godwin Obaseki. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Fred Itua, on Sunday in Benin City, indicated that the committee members would be inaugurated on Tuesday, November 26. Mr Itua listed the…
Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has alleged that the outgoing governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki, has fled Nigeria through the land borders. Okpebholo is expected to be sworn into office on Tuesday, meaning that Obaseki will lose his immunity. Obaseki last week said he heard that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says he has received information of being arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) next week when his tenure elapses. The Governor, however said he is not afraid of any arrest and investigation of his administration over “silly petitions” which have been written against him by “cruel…
The office of the deputy governor of Edo State, on Osadebe Avenue, Benin, the state capital, has been sealed off by stern-looking policemen who were spotted there on Sunday. The sealed office was the one Philip Shaibu was relocated outside the Government House in the height off his face off with Governor Godwin Obaseki. As…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has revealed how he warned Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) about the consequences of not paying attention to his advice before the election. In a statement signed Tuesday by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele stated the opposition parties in…
Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, said he was at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early of Sunday for information on what was stalling the collation of results of the governorship election. In a press conference alongside Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa; and Asue Ighodalo, governorship candidate of the Peoples…
It was a dramatic scene at about 4:10 am when Governor Godwin Obaseki was forced out of the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Benin by the DIG Frank Mba. Obaseki had entered the promises unannounced at around 2 am allegedly to protest some anomalies in the collation of results of some local…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office at about 3.30 am on Sunday demanding that state governor Godwin Obesity should leave the office because he has no reason to be there when results were yet to be. Announced The governor was said to have gained entrance into…
Governor Godwin Obaseki has described the upcoming Edo State governorship election, scheduled for September 21, as a “do-or-die” affair. The declaration came just two days after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) refused to sign the Peace Accord over alleged unmet demands. Speaking to a large crowd in Oredo Local Government Area during the PDP’s final…
The wife of the Edo State Governor, Betsy Obaseki, on Saturday, urged childless women not to see themselves as barren but as fruitful, potential, and proud mothers of children that would come in God’s time. Obaseki, accompanied by Mrs Ifeyinwa Ighodalo, the wife of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, shared these comforting words during…