VIOLENCE; AHEAD 2015 ELECTION

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party , who recently defected  from the ruling party in Edo state , APC, Chief Frank Erewele has asked for calm ahead the 2015 general elections.

Chief Frank Erewele who was reacting to the bombing of the Dental Clinic of the Wife of former secretary to Edo state Government Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu along Denis Osadeby Avenue GRA Benin attributed the attack to attempts to cajole them back to the ruling Party,  APC.

The PDP Chieftain  whose House was also was attacked early Friday said trouble started after he addressed a press where he debunked allegations that it was the campaign office of the former SSG that was the meeting point for those who attacked the Legislative quarters.

  

Chief Frank Erewele  said a petrol station at Oluku near Benin City, which belongs to one of the women who also attended the press conference was allegedly raised down by Agents of the state  an action which he said may not be unconnected with the attempts to arm twist all those who left the APC.

MEAN WHILE, Edo state Commissioner Mr Loiuse Odion in a press statement has since denied any involvement of the state Government in any of the attacks saying those crying wolf would have carried out the acts to attract public sympathy and score cheap political gain.

The statement adds that the former SSG and his associates are used to such gimmicks.

ELSE WHERE,

The Edo State Government has alerted the Nigerian Police to put a member of the People Democratic Party , PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his allies on close watch due to his perfidious nature.

 A press statement by Peter Okhiria, Chief Press Secretary to Edo State governor indicated that government believes that the purported attack was stage-managed.

This is in view of what was regarded as claim of a bomb attack and subsequent

Press statement he issued in Benin City   against the backdrop of the  purported attack on his wife’s clinic .

The statement  says allegations of this nature had always been the prelude to staging an attack on APC members in the state in the past noting that by  Ize-Iyamu’s account and his haste to accuse Comrade Oshiomhole of culpability for a supposed crime yet to be investigated, the government is persuaded to

believe he is merely acting a script.      Wrt/oed./Xto