Tag: Ize-Iyamu
-
Edo election: Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu embrace, hold peace talks [+Photos]
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his major challenger, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday, embraced each other for the first time in many months. Before the meeting of the key political actors at the Oba of Benin palace on Wednesday, there have been weeks of heated tension in the state as a result of the activities…
-
Edo 2020: Why federal lawmakers snub Obaseki, pitch tent with Ize-Iyamu
By Emman Ovuakporie More facts emerged on Wednesday as to why Edo Federal Lawmakers in the upper legislative Chambers shunned Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and pitched tent with the All Progressives Congress, APC Guber candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reliably gathered that Obaseki deliberately kept the lawmakers in the dark about his defection…
-
Edo APC suspends campaign over road accident, condoles with victims
The candidate of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has called off his rally at Usen, following a road crash of a trailer that ran into the travelling campaign entourage of top chieftains of the APC, claiming lives. In a statement endorsed by the Chairman of the APC Media Campaign Council,…
-
JUST IN: Two die in Edo APC campaign train, Ize-Iyamu suspends campaign
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has suspended its campaign following an auto crash close to Oluku Junction, near Benin on Benin-Lagos Road, which claimed the lives of two policemen and a yet to be ascertained number of party chieftains and supporters. Its Governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, was billed to campaign on Tuesday…
-
Edo Poll: Oba of Benin invites Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu for peace pact
The Oba of Benin, who is worried of the violent dimension that campaigns are going, said he would invite all the governorship candidates participating in the coming governorship election in the state to his palace to sign a peace pact. This, he said especially between the two major political parties; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
-
Iriase accuses Obaseki, Shaibu, PDP of unleashing violence in Edo, seeks help from FG
Former Deputy Majority Whip of the House of Representatives, Pally Iriase on Tuesday said Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are unleashing violence in Edo State and desecrating democratic values ahead of the governorship election in the state. Iriase said Obaseki and his agents took to violence and other acts of intimidation…
-
Edo 2020: It’s time for Orhionmwon to produce Governor – Ize-Iyamu
Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the APC candidate for the Sept. 19 governorship election in Edo, says it is the turn of Orhiomwon Local Government Council to produce the next governor of the state. The All Progressives Congress candidate made the assertion on Saturday during his electioneering at Iyoba Ward 4 and Ugboko Ward 5 of the…
-
Build up to Edo 2020: Ize -Iyamu preaches gospel of non violence as APC, PDP allege stockpiling of arms
… INEC warns of likely consequences … Edolites nurse fears of bloodshed By Emman Ovuakporie Barely four weeks from now the Edo guber race will take place, but the signals emanating from the heartbeat of the nation are heart trembling. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) Africa’s number one news portal reports the allegations and counter allegations of arms…
-
Your ambition not worth blood of Edo people, Ize-Iyamu’s campaign tells Obaseki
The Campaign Council of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flagbearer, has told the state governor and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Godwin Obaseki that his second term ambition is not worth the blood and life of citizens of the state. Accusing the governor of been desperate of winning the…
-
For Edo, Ize-Iyamu is a two-in-one product
By Olatunde Bello-Ishola The offer is mouth-watering and irresistible. And it is in plain sight: no ambiguity or sophistry. Aside from his accretion of qualities, the practical and well-thought-out promises to salvage the state from the doldrums with the ‘SIMPLE Agenda’, there is so much more why Edo people are eager to vote for Pastor…