Chairman
of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dan
Orbih, on Monday, called for Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s removal over
alleged perjury.
Obih,
at a press biefing in Benin City claimed the governor swore to an
affidavit in May 2012, indicating that he was born April 4, 1952.
Committee
of Friends of Governor Oshiomhole last week Thursday, organised a
lecture to mark the governor’s 60th birthday. This, according to Orbih,
portrays Oshiomhole as lying on oath.
But Special Adviser (Media) to the governor, Kassim Afegbua, in a reaction labeled the PDP leaders in the state as jobless.
Orbih
said, “The governor said that he was born April 4, 1953. Even last year
here, he celebrated 59 years and since he was sworn into office, he has
consistently maintained that he was born April 4, 1953.
“If
you go to the official website of Edo State, you will see it clearly;
it is on Wikipedia, but on Monday (April 4), fellow governors were
celebrating him on the pages of newspapers. The President sent a
congratulatory message to him at 60, and of course, Edo State PDP seeing
what was going on, we had to come out to celebrate him; the first time
you see opposition party celebrates someone in power.
“We
believed that the governor is 60, but as a responsible party, we
discovered that the governor, precisely on May 4, 2012, went to the High
Court to swear to an affidavit to the effect that he was born on April
4, 1952.
“You
can now appreciate the dilemma we are facing. In the history of the
world, no man was born in two separate years; this is perjury. It is
labour rascality and we have our children watching, and democracy can
never be deepened that way, when leaders lie unperturbed.”
He
added, “The governor throughout the event never stood up to correct
this. This is a challenge to us all and we have no choice than to ask
the governor to resign immediately.”
Afegbua called on the people of the state to ignore PDP’s antics and continue in their support for the administration.
Afegbua
said, “They are busybodies. The governor came out and told the whole
world that he celebrated his 61st birthday. The PDP people are jobless,
if they’re not they wouldn’t call a press briefing over the governor’s
age. By the time we got to know it was 60 that was written on the
programme it was too late to amend.
“There
is no dilemma in all these. The governor did not spend a dime on the
event; friends put it up and that was why they called it colloquy.”
Source: Punch Nigeria
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