The Edo state government has denied a claim that Obaseki had a meeting with Akwa Ibom REC, Mr. Mike Igini in Benin City, the state capita of Edo State.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, made the denial Monday in a statement. He said, “contrary to the purported ‘lie’ in some quarters, Governor Godwin Obaseki never had a meeting with any REC.”
He added: “In its latest attack on INEC, the APC concocted a story that INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, met with Governor Godwin Obaseki in Benin City. Clearly, the APC is taking its frustration, resulting from its low public rating, out on everyone and anyone that is not ready to do its bidding.”
“There was no meeting of any kind between Governor Obaseki and Mike Igini, the INEC REC. After a cursory look at the newspapers, one would think that the forthcoming election in Edo State is between the APC and the rest of the world, because the party has vilified and misrepresented the judiciary, INEC, the Benin Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture; royal and notable families in Edo State as well as traditional institutions, like a loose cannon.”
The state government therefore called on APC’s gubernatorial candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to adopt conventional means in his desperation to shore up his image instead of casting aspersions on the nation’s important democratic institution.