Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki has said that his predecessor and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has lost political grip of the state and therefore resorted to deploying Police officers from Abuja to harass his aides.
Obaseki stated this in response to the arrest of his security adviser at the weekend, Mr. Andrew Momodu, by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) with the intent of whisking him to Abuja.
The governor has been at dagger drawn with Oshiomhole over who controls the State structure of the party.
In a statement by the governor’s special adviser on media, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said the security aide was arrested in a gestapo style.
According to him, “When Momodu resisted the unlawful arrest by the security agents, he was taken to the Police Headquarters in Benin, where he was held for an extended period until the Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu intervened.”
“Investigations revealed that the security from Abuja have orders from above to pick up not less than 50 persons loyal to Obaseki, in an attempt to plunge the state into chaos and cause panic in the governor’s camp.
“Those penciled down for arrest, according to sources privy to the policemen’s modus operandi, including Special Adviser (SA) to the Governor on Political Matters, Edo South, Hon. Osaigbovo Iyoha.
“Others on the list are Albert Obazee, Kelly Okungbowa (popularly known as Ebo Stone) and Muktar-Osagie Muntari, who heads the state’s Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV), the statement added.
