As the Edo State gubernatorial election draws closer, Governor Godwin Obaseki has told the people of the state to be wary of the financial backing billionaire, Captain Hosa Okunbo, is giving to the All Progressives Congress, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, saying it was designed to reap the state’s treasury.
Obaseki made this disclosure in a statement through his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, in response to Okunbo’s interview published in several media outlets on Monday.
The statement read in part:
In the interview Okunbo granted journalists in Abuja, 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.
Earlier, Captain Okunbo declared that he will spend his “last kobo” in ensuring that Ize-Iyamu emerges the governor of Edo State when residents take to the poll on September 19, 2020.
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The billionaire had in an interview with Vanguard, said:
I still consider Godwin my brother but I don’t consider him a leader because he doesn’t have the attributes of a good leader.
Edo State is a collective responsibility, it is a place where we all must support. I have no other place to call my foundation apart from that place.
It is more important to me than any other place. He lacks the leadership qualities and he also lacks the temperament and patience to govern people. He is deceitful.
It’s only unfortunate that Osagie Ize-Iyanmu who also contested against him in 2016 is out there and I am supporting him by default and of course, I want a better Edo State and that’s all I can say.
