Adams Oshiomhole Accuses PDP Of 'Importing' 8,000 Militants For Edo Polls

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday fired a broadside at his Delta and Rivers States counterparts for allegedly registering 8, 000 militants in  his state for the purpose of manipulating the September 28 governorship election.
 
He observed that Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) were neck deep in plans to “make peaceful election impossible” when the people of Edo go to the polls to elect their next governor in two weeks time.

 
“Our opponent, unable to find local thugs to help them perpetrate violence which they have done between 1999 and 2007 when I took over, resorted to liaising with my brothers in the sub-region, Delta and Rivers, in particular, to export criminals and militants into Edo State in order to make peaceful election impossible,” Oshiomhole said when he received the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris during a courtesy visit at Government House, Benin City.
 
The PDP said the allegation was baseless.
Originally scheduled for today, the election was shifted at the instance of the Department of State security and the police who said that security reports at their disposal suggested that the terror sect, Boko Haram, had perfected its plan to unleash terror on the state if the election were to proceed today.
 
However, the Edo State chapter of the PDP dismissed Oshiomhole’s allegation against Wike and Okowa as a deceit. It warned the governor to show respect to his fellow governors.
 
State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, in a telephone chat said that the allegation was baseless and an indictment of the security agencies for 8000 persons to move into the state without detection. 

Culled from The Nation