Browsing: Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State

Speaking at a rally of the All Progressives Congress at the Garrick Memorial College, Benin City on Thursday, Oshiomhole said Ize-Iyamu was in hiding from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission when the governorship election in the state was held and so did not vote for him and could not have made him governor

New Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Edo State, Sam Olumekun, gave the guidelines just as the Governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, urged him to flush out corrupt officials of the Commission who were fingered for aiding electoral fraud in the last general election

Governor Oshiomhole said: “My own personal conviction is that because of the importance we attach to education, the whole idea of upgrading Ekiadolor to a university is that we don’t want to have NCE teachers in our secondary schools

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Peter Okhiria, the Governor said “Our attention has been drawn to the unprovoked verbal assault launched by one Senator Dino Melaye on the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, while making a contribution on the floor of the Senate on the need to patronize made-in-Nigeria goods.

A chieftain of the PDP, Okharedia Ihimekpen, had alleged that bags of rice released by former President Goodluck Jonathan to sway votes in favour of the PDP in the last general election were not distributed and was shocked to see the portraits of a certain gubernatorial aspirant super-imposed on the bags of rice and distributed as his Christmas package last December

Speaking at a Memorial Mass held on Sunday at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Iyamoh, Uzairue, Etsako West Local Government Area, when he led his children and other members of his family to mark the fourth year anniversary of the call to glory of his wife, who died on December 7, 2010, Oshiomhole said his late wife was humble to a fault

“As one philosopher aptly puts it, ‘God cannot be everywhere, so He created mothers’. Mama (fondly called Mama Sisi) was obviously your own guardian angel. Your Excellency, your own life story speaks to exemplary fortitude, uncommon focus and stellar courage. Despite losing your biological mother in your teenage years, you pulled yourself by the bootstraps and rose above all odds to become who you are today