Edo People, Beware, Here’s Why Edo Billionaire Is Funding Ize-Iyamu

Edo People, beware, here’s why Edo billionaire, Captain Hosa Okunbo Is Funding Osagie Ize-Iyamu, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , in the state’s upcoming gubernatorial election.

Proffering the warning is the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie.

Osagie says the financial backing coming from billionaire, Captain Hosa Okunbo, is Greek gift that would qualify the latter to reap the state’s treasury at due time.

“In the interview Okunbo granted journalists in Abuja” began Osagie in his statement. “he said he does not invest in any venture without first assessing the profit motive. He also said that he will spend his last kobo backing Ize-Iyamu.

“So, clearly, Okunbo is investing in Ize-Iyamu with the treasury of Edo State in mind. This is the reason they want Governor Obaseki out of the way, so that he can grab the treasury of Edo State to service his outlandish lifestyle. Edo State will have nothing left in the treasury to pay pensioners, teachers and other government workers.

“Edo people know that the return on Okunbo’s investment in Ize-Iyamu is the entire Edo State’s treasury.

“All the accusations of nonperformance he made against the governor in the interview are all lies, concocted to put the governor in bad light.”

Osagie said this in a statement in Benin on Monday, in response to Okunbo’s interview published in several national newspapers on Monday.

Osagie added “Obaseki’s stellar performance was visible across the three senatorial districts of the state,” and that Edo people should be wiser than believing anything else.

So much has been said and done in the state in the recent as a run-up to the election slated for The Oba of Benin has expressed worry over the spate of violence in the lead up to the polls slated for September 19.

Even the Edo monarch, the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo had, in the recent expressed worry over the heated atmosphere., appealing to Edo people to keep the peace.

“This is the worst scenario of all the politics that we have seen in Edo. Edo politics have been in the news for quite sometime now for all the wrong reasons. “I have had sleepless nights over this.

“My mind is burning up over this violence and shooting all over the state. Let the shooting stop and let there be peace and quiet in the state”, he appealed to Edo people