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Edo APC Crisis: Oshiomhole Rejects Obaseki’s Christmas Gifts

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Oshiomhole Speaks On Relationship With Obaseki

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has rejected Christmas gifts sent to him by the Edo State Government.

This was disclosed by Mr Crusoe Osage, the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communications, in a statement in Benin today.

According to Osagie, the conventional Christmas presents reserved for former governors of the state that were sent to Oshiomhole were turned back.

He said that messengers from the state government were dispatched to deliver the gifts on Christmas eve.

“The messengers said they met the mother of the former governor who rejected the items, stating that her son would not accept the gifts.

“The gift items meant for Comrade Oshiomhole include four cows and ten bags of rice”.

He said the distribution of Christmas gifts was an annual ritual by the state government which serves as an expression of love, further strengthening the ties between the government and the people.

He said the gifts were distributed to other government functionaries, political appointees, heads of security agencies, traditional rulers, religious leaders and heads of institutions of higher learning, among other prominent people in the society.

Osagie said Obaseki and Comrade Oshiomhole had been locked in a political tussle over the governor’s policy choices focused on prioritizing the peoples’ welfare as against pressures by a handful of politicians to share the state’s resources.

He said the governor had set the political rift aside to perform the ritual of sending the gifts to Comrade Oshiomhole.



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