Oshiomhole Lied – Sylva

Fri, Sep 25, 2015
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TIMIPRE Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa State, on Thursday, September 24, described Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, as a liar and a mischievous person.

Sylva spoke in response to Oshiomhole’s claim that Sylva disrupted the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State capital, on Tuesday, September 22.

The Edo governor had on Wednesday, September 23, accused the former governor of disrupting the governorship primary of the party and said that the claim by Sylva that he won was a huge joke.

Oshiomhole further alleged that Sylva’s thugs held him hostage for hours at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, venue of the APC primary.

But Sylva in a statement on Thursday by Doifie Buokoribo, his media adviser, said it was clear that Oshiomhole never intended to conduct the primary as scheduled.

The statement said in part: “It is unfortunate that people like Adams Oshiomhole, the governor of Edo State and former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, who pretend to be incorruptible, would conduct himself in the manner in which he did in relation to the Bayelsa State governorship primary. It was clear that Oshiomhole never wanted to conduct the primary as scheduled.”

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He alleged that it was obvious that Oshiomhole was not because he shifted the primary from its earlier date of Saturday, September 19 to Tuesday, September 22.

 Sylva said Oshiomhole could not really say anything about the primary election because he had left the venue at the time voting started. He claimed that the Edo governor set the process in motion for voting to start before he excused himself on the grounds that he was going to eat, and that he mandated other members of the committee to proceed without him.

He also accused Oshiomhole of coming to Yenagoa with a clear agenda to get him out of the race at all costs.

— Oct 5, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT

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