The EFCC had in the case, with suit No. FHC/BE21C/ 2016, before Justice J. M. Umar at the Federal High Court, Benin City, filed an eight-count charge against Ize-Iyamu and four others on alleged illegal receipt of public funds to the tune of N700 million for the purpose of conducting the 2015 general elections, contrary to the provisions of the EFCC Act and the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.
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The Governor said this during a courtesy visit by the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Air Vice Marshall (retd) Muhammadu Muhammed, who was in the state to flag off the Emergency Agricultural Intervention Funds programme for Persons affected by flooding.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, in a statement said the state government has pursued a wholistic strategy to revamping the education sector in the last three years and seven months that has seen to the development of the critical sectors of the education sector.
The Director of POI-MCO, John Mayaki, who said this in a statement on Saturday in Benin, noted that the APC and its governorship candidate were not oblivious of the extant regulations on campaigns.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party and Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress as the mudslingers.
The Chairman of the committee, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere (APC-Edo), made the committee’s position known in a statement in Abuja.
The Leader of the group, Uwaila Airueghian, told newsmen in Benin that the group would throw its weight behind Obaseki, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, because he stood for women empowerment.
The accusation was contained in a statement by John Mayaki, the Director of Communication and Media of Ize-Iyamu’s Campaign Organization.
The court had at its last sitting on June 18 validated the corruption charges against the defendants, and, therefore, adjourned the case until July 7 for hearing.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Adelaja Adeoye, spoke by telephone with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday.
The ADP defectors were from Egor, Ovia South West and Ovia North East Local Government Areas of Edo State.
Timidi Wariowei, the INEC Head of Voter Education in Edo State, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin that the campaigns officially commenced on June 21.
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Kassim Afegbua, has said the candidate of the party for the upcoming governorship election in Edo State and the incumbent, Godwin Obaseki, is the opposite of what an ideal democratic situation should be.
Reacting to a report in an online medium that Dangote told newsmen in Abuja that he “shall continue to support his good and reliable friend, Mr. Godwin Obaseki known to have handled stocks and investment portfolios for Dangote Group”, Chiejina said the report was an outright falsehood and a figment of the imagination of the writers.
The aides communicated their decision to the Governor in a joint letter of resignation.
Brigadier General Usman Bello, Commander, 4 Brigade, Benin, who distributed the palliatives on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, said the exercise was part of activities to mark the 2020 Army Day celebration.
Reacting to the appointments in a statement in Abuja by his media office, the former Vice President said: “The PDP couldn’t have made a better choice because Governor Wike is an outstanding and dedicated party man who has consistently worked for the success of our party.”
Abubakar announced this in a statement on Saturday in Benin.
The PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, who presented the certificate to Obaseki, commended the party’s electoral committee for holding a peaceful and successful primary in Edo State.
Akhigbe, a foremost medical scientist and grassroots mobiliser, who hails from Esan North Local Government Area of Edo State, clinched the ADC ticket with a wide margin at the party’s primaries on Saturday.