Osagie Ize-Iyamu,
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Edo governorship
election, says Adams Oshiomole, former governor of the state, never meant the
bad things he said about him.
He said the APC
leader was only trying to “demarket” him when he contested for governor under a
different party — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In 2016 when he was
campaigning for Godwin Obaseki, the APC candidate who has now defected to the
PDP, Oshiomhole denounced Ize-Iyamu as someone who cannot be trusted with
public funds.
He said the then PDP
candidate was hiding from the anti-graft agencies, adding: “Lucky Igbinedion’s
mother was reported to have slapped Ize-Iyamu for misleading her son. He tried
it with me, but we kept him away. Nothing near government circle. No access to
public funds.”
In an interview with
The PUNCH, Ize-Iyamu said Oshiomhole was “playing politics” and the things he
said about him was never from his heart.
“He made those
statements during the period I was on the other side and was contesting to be
the state governor and he (Oshiomhole) was determined to prevent that. What do
you expect? Were you expecting him to praise me at that time when he did not
want me to be governor,” he said.
“So, when you look
at the context in which he said those things, you will understand that he was
just playing politics and he needed to demarket me so that his candidate would
have an advantage. And after the election, that was the end of it.
“So, I do not think
that we should dwell too much on what he said before the election. If you are
saying that, we can also take you back to what he said about me before then.
People are saying look at the bad things he said during the campaign.
“Why did they not
look at the good things he said before the campaign? The truth is that he was
only trying to demarket me so that Edo people would not vote for me, not that
it was from his heart.”
Below is the video
of Oshiomhole speaking ill of Ize-Iyamu when he contested in the 2016 election:
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayFlashback to when #Oshiomhole denounced Ize-Iyamu pic.twitter.com/BXjE2YAcda— Ibrahim Mansur (@MansurIB007) June 28, 2020
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If the video in circulation is real, he was trying to de-market you by publicly making glaring criminal allegations against you and you kept quite?
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Deleteafter all that APC former chairman said about the APC flag bearer in EDO forth coming governorship election,the same former chairman still has the got to want him lead EDO people.please what s wrong with nigerian politians,they sit in the comfort of their bedrooms and toy with the people and still go behind to exploit them.too bad .EDO people the ball is in your court.
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