The Edo State government has dismissed claims
by the Peoples Democratic party’s leader, Mr
Osagie Ize-Iyamu, that Governor Adams
Oshiomhole masterminded a bomb attack in the
state on Sunday.
After a bomb was detonated by unknown persons
at Shalom Dental Clinic, belonging to Mr Ize-
Iyamu’s wife on Sunday morning, Mr Ize-Iyamu
and some other members of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) accused the Governor of
masterminding the attack.
He made the claims while addressed reporters
after the bomb attack.
In response to his claims, the Edo State
Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion,
released a statement rejecting the claims.
Mr odion said that the claims was another phase
in what clearly had become the desperation of the
PDP to spread falsehood and sow fear in the
minds of the people of Edo State with a view to
simulating a crisis.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Edo State
government wishes to state that the report of
bomb explosion at the Edo Government House is
patently false.
“No sooner had the purported “bomb attack” been
reported by an online medium with further claim
of bomb explosion within Government House, than
Mr Ize-Iyamu quickly called a press conference to
point fingers at the Governor, Comrade Adams
Eric Oshiomhole, as the mastermind of the
explosion at the clinic owned by his wife.
“By Ize-Iyamu’s ludicrous account and his haste
to accuse Comrade Oshiomhole of culpability for
a supposed crime yet to be investigated, we are
persuaded to believe he is merely acting out a
script. It is laughable indeed that any sane man
will be targeting an obscure clinic that is, at best,
now moribund.
“Mr Ize-Iyamu’s wild allegation fits into PDP’s
jaded style of stage-managing assaults on its
agents to be used as pretext by its thugs to
attack officials of Edo State Government and
agents of the APC.
“Again, Mr Ize-Iyamu’s reference to cultists being
engaged against PDP is ironic and laughable.
Even as full-time president of the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC), Comrade Oshiomhole was known
for his non-violence philosophy. On the contrary,
Edo people know those with the history of cultism
and violence dating back to their school days.
“Against the backdrop of this latest purported
attack on his wife’s clinic, which we believe was
stage-managed, we wish to alert the police to put
Pastor Ize-Iyamu and his co-travellers under
close watch as allegations of this nature had
always been the prelude to staging an attack on
All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the
state in the past,” Mr Odion said.
He further asks the PDP to look within its ranks
to get to the root of the attack on a former
member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr
Rasaq Momoh.
The Commissioner for Information also called on
the police to thoroughly probe top leaders of the
PDP for the attack on the Edo State Legislative
Quarters on October 11.
Earlier, the publicity secretary of the state’s ruling
APC, Godwin Erahon, rejected the claims by Mr
Ize-Iyamu, stressing that neither the Governor nor
the party had a hand in the attack.
The Edo State Police Commissioner, Folusho
Adebanjo, who confirmed the blast, said the
police had arrested suspects in connection with
the attack.
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