Governorship Election Campaign Kick-Off: Tell Edos why you were detained, Oshiomhole fires the first salvo at Arhiavbere

BENIN CITY - As the campaign for the July 14 election kicked off in Edo State yesterday, Governor Adams Oshiomhole has fired the first salvo at his Peoples Democratic Party opponent, Charles Arhiavbere, asking him to tell the Edo People and indeed Nigerians why he was detained for three months by the Army Authorities while still in service.

The Governor threw the challenge in Benin City at the decamping of the South South
Youth Leader of the PDP, Mr. Ralph Usuomon and 25 other leaders of the party from
Edo South Senatorial district and over 5,000 of their supporters to the Action Congress of
Nigeria.

According to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, “we are here mobilizing for one man, one vote while the expired godfather is in a dark room preparing police and military uniforms and he brought one retired cashier who calls himself a General but does not know how to fire a Dane gun, he said he will probe Oshiomhole.

“He claims to be a Catholic in the day, but at night he goes to collect white chalk at a shrine at Uromi. He said he had deep pockets, now we know why military y pensioners have not got their pensions, why dead soldiers are still receiving pensions..

“When we go for campaigns and they ask who are you, I will say I am Adams Oshiomhole, I worked for the Nigerian people, fought for the Nigerian masses and I have been detained many times in the course of working for the people.

I confronted real and seasoned generals, I confronted Obasanjo. But I will also ask him what he did that he was detained. How many months was he detained for. He must tell the people of Edo state why he was detained because if he doesn’t, we will help him.

“Right now, he is going about preaching ethnic politics, he said it’s all about Benin agenda, we ask, with his deep pockets, how many clinics did he build in Benin, which market did he build. Even his Agbodo community has disowned him.

When I was in Labour and they formed the Labour Transit, only four garages were to be built, one in Abuja, one in Lagos, one in Port Harcourt but I insisted that the last one must be in the capital of my state, Benin City. So the moment of truth is here. What has he done for the, people?

“When they did their primaries, he lost in four Local Governments and all of them were Local Governments in Benin, that means the Benin people have rejected him, yet the godfather imposed him.”

He told the people to vote right due to what they see and not what they hear, noting that they should insist on the report card of the candidates which speaks volume of a good administrator.

While declaring the campaign as moment of truth he urged the people of Oredo to be ready to defend their votes.

A ward chairman of the PDP, Osaro Obaze said that they have watched from afar how the governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has used the resources of the state for the benefit of the people.

“We have come to support the governor for what he is doing in the state and he called on people to imbibe the one man one vote legacy of the governor,” he noted.

A PDP chieftain in Oredo, Elder Asoross who said they have come with over two hundred members of the PDP to decamp to the Action Congress of Nigeria said that he felt humbled to be accepted into the Action Congress of Nigeria