By
Clement Agho
It
has again been asserted that no amount of propaganda or manipulation of lies
and half-truths, or the untoward creation of imaginary images of violence and
latent threats, could alter the straight judicial consideration of the Election
Petition case brought before the Nigerian Judiciary and the court of public
opinion, by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the July 14,
2012 gubernatorial election, Major-General Charles Airhiavbere, rtd., against
the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and governor of Edo
State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Making the assertion in an exclusive
interview with The Navigator last week, arch-supporter of Major-General
Airhiavbere, rtd., and prominent leader of the PDP in Edo South Senatorial
district, Owere Dickson Imasogie, condemned in very strong terms the paid
publication in the Vanguard of Thursday, 8 November, 2012, on Page 52,
released, supposedly, under the auspices of The Bini Truth Movement, and signed
by one Edosa Efosa Osazuwa, to the effect that there would be high resistance
should Comrade Adams Oshiomhole be legally vacated from office as Governor of
Edo State as a result of legal issues arising from the July 14, 2012
gubernatorial election, which are already before the Election Tribunal.
While conjecturing that the
publication could still be one of the propagandist’s antics of the Action
Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its leaders, Owere Imasogie, however, challenged
security agencies in the state not to rest on their oars but to remain vigilant
and conscious of the unguided threat to the peace and security of Edo State
inherent in the newspaper publication.
In his words, “such threats are
uncalled for. The case is already before
a legally-constituted Election Petition Tribunal, whose outcome every concerned
citizen of this country is waiting for.
It could yet be one of the propaganda stunts of the ACN, because they
thrive on propaganda and the spreading of spurious claims. This is because I do not think The Bini Truth
Movement, if there is ever any group like that really, would raise and commit
over N400,000 that that publication would have cost them, to meddle in a case
that is not their own.
“What business are they doing to get that kind of
money to throw away? They are not the
mouth-piece of Gov. Oshiomhole. If anything, they should be asking their
governor to answer to the charges against him without rigmarole. Let the governor come out with what he has as
qualification and let’s re-valuate it.
They listed in the publication all the qualifications they say
Oshiomhole has, fine. Let him show up at
the court, period. Is it the threat of
resistance on pages of newspapers that will convince the judges and PDP? No!
They are not helping issues. Was Prof.
Osunbor not vacated from the Government House by a court’s pronouncement in
2008? Did anybody set fire anywhere? You
cannot plant yam and expect to reap plantain.
I will also like to call on the ACN to advise and educate its people on
how not to breach public peace.”
Owere Imasogie also condemned the spread of false
information by the ACN leaders, which also occurred on Wednesday November, 7,
2012 at the premises of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the learned
Justices had thrown out the case brought before the court, whereupon the party
supporters in the premises started jubilating.
He reaffirmed that there was no such declaration by the court, which
promised to communicate to the parties to the case, the date for its judgment.
The party leader expressed implicit confidence in the
integrity of the judiciary to objectively adjudicate in the pending petition of
Major-General Airhiavbere’s, and called on the PDP supporters, and all other
interested citizens of Nigeria, to patiently await the pronouncement of the
court on the issues before it
The Navigator
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