The Oba of Benin, during the courtesy visit by APC leaders, called on the candidates contesting next month’s election to preach peace and shun campaign of calumny.
Presidency blasts PDP over attacks on Buhari, Ize-IyamuBefore a teeming crowd comprising 11 state governors, ministers, All Progressives Congress chieftains and party supporters, the APC on Saturday got its campaign in Benin for the September 19 governorship election underway, optimistic of victory.
National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, said although the commission is disturbed by the situation in Edo State, it is not considering postponing the polls. When you have a governor who was unknown, talking down on his people, if you talk down on your people, God will talk down on you.
“Never again shall we have a governor by MoU for MoU, benefitting only consultants. Do you want government by consultancy? “Never again should a governor who knows that he has only three credits in Religious Knowledge, History and Geography, and he told the people of Edo State that the three credits took him to the University of Ibadan . We will dismiss him in court.
“People that have come to provoke us, God will give us the strength to resist them. What we know is the weapon of PVC. Those who are looking for guns and bullets shall not prosper.” “I have to congratulate you on the inauguration of 14 elected state House of Assembly members and also the election of the new principal officers of Edo State House of Assembly. We do congratulate you and we pray Almighty God to guide them for successful deliberations in Edo State House of Assembly.
The governorship candidate said that from tomorrow, he and other APC stakeholders would begin to move from local government to local government, while encouraging members of the party to go back to their units to continue campaigning, in order to ensure victory on September 19. Ewuare II said: “The throne is not partisan. And this is because of the expectations of our people and because of the laid-down rules by our forefathers. We see everybody as our children.
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