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Edo Guber: LP Aspirant Cautions Party On Free, Fair Primary

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2 years ago

January 9, 2024

A Labour Party, LP, governorship aspirant in the forthcoming Edo State election, Ogbemudia Bassey Osagie, on Tuesday cautioned leadersship of the party to give all aspirants a level playing ground.

Osagie spoke in Benin City during a meeting with leaders of the Labour Party in Oredo Local Government Council on his governorship ambition ahead of the primary election.

He said it’s unfortunate that money bag politicians have hijacked the party using their wealth to get people to support their guber ambition and buying vehicles for party officials to hoodwink them to allegedly skew the process in their favour.

The Sergeant/Detective at the Toronto Police, threatened to personally hold the party executives accountable should the primary be skewed in a favor of a particular aspirant who he alleged doling out cash gifts and vehicles to LP officials.

“Even if I have the money, I am not going to use money to influence people to support me. If an aspirant like me is sharing millions of naira to people. You should question my character. Firstly, you should ask, I thought this man is a police man? Where did he get the money he is sharing. Where did he have the money he is sharing to party and in buying vehicles to share to party officials? “

Osagie who said the LP must eschew all forms of illegality ahead of her primary, added that
If the party primary is not free and fair, “we are going to hold labour party executive accountable. We are going to make them understand that if money bags hijack the LP in Edo, we are not going to let go.

“Personally, I am going to hold them accountable if they don’t follow a fair process,” he said.

Noting that he would not be deterred should the primary outcome not go in his favour, Osagie said, “I am here to stay. I am not desperate to be Edo state governor. But I believe Edo State is going to be in better hands with me.

“I am going to provide the leadership that Edo people lack, the leadership that our leaders have refused to provide over the years,” Osagie said.

Osagie said that if given the opportunity to govern the state that he will deploy all the instruments of governance to completely remove Edo people from abject poverty and be a reference point to others.

Osagie said he will shock those who do not believe that the economy of Edo State can be revived as quickly as possible if all the needed apparatuses are applied to do the needful.

He said having been abroad for years , it has exposed him to so many things that can assist him to bring on board all the needed experience that will help him to put a good and acceptable governance in place.

According to him, “I have always loved to work and support my people. That was the main reason I always reach out to my people. Edo 2024 is an opportunity for me to offer myself to work for Edo people as Governor. I am already reaching out to investors that will help me to achieve the dream of changing the narrative in Edo State. I therefore need the support of all the people to succeed in actualizing the dream of being the number one citizen of the state”.

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Why We’re Impeaching Fubara — Rivers Assembly

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13 hours ago

January 8, 2026

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The Rivers State House of Assembly has given reasons for the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

The Majority Leader of the Assembly, Major Jack, said the decision to impeach the governor and his deputy was based on their alleged persistent violation of the peace agreement brokered by President Bola Tinubu.

Jack made the allegation during plenary on Thursday while presenting the report detailing acts of misconduct against the governor.

According to him, Governor Fubara and his deputy had repeatedly disregarded the resolutions reached during reconciliation efforts aimed at restoring stability in the state.

He accused the two leaders of running the affairs of government without commitment to transparency and good governance.

“The governor and his deputy have continued to act in a manner that undermines democratic principles and accountability,” Jack said.

He further alleged that the peace deals facilitated by President Tinubu were breached on several occasions, including agreements reached during reconciliation meetings held in December 2023 and another in 2025.

Jack insisted that the continued failure of the governor and his deputy to honour the terms of the peace accord necessitated the impeachment process currently before the Assembly.

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‘We’ll Do Everything To Stop It’ – APC Rejects Fubara’s Impeachment

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13 hours ago

January 8, 2026

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State chapter, has vehemently rejected the move by the State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy.

The Assembly had earlier on Thursday commenced an impeachment process against Fubara over alleged misconduct.

The impeachment notice is expected to be issued to the governor and his deputy in the next seven days.

Reacting, the Rivers APC, in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, rejected the move.

“Our position as at today on this matter is that we solemnly reject the resort to an impeachment process against our governor and his deputy.

“It will be totally untenable for our party to keep quiet when an obvious hangover from strifes that occurred within the PDP are allowed to resurface in our great party,” Darlington said.

He added that the ruling party “will do everything possible to ensure that the Government of Rivers State, which is an APC government, is not destabilized”

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Rivers Crisis: Bad People Won’t Prevail Over Us – Wike

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14 hours ago

January 8, 2026

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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says God will not allow “bad people” prevail in Rivers State.

Wike made the statement on Thursday during his ‘thank-you-visit’ to the Bonny Island area of Rivers State.

“I appreciate you because you have shown me love and shown that you are people that can be trusted.

“I have told people that I don’t believe in generalizing, if for example somebody in Bonny disappoints you, you said Bonny people are bad, that’s very wrong.

“There are different kinds of people.There are places you have armed robbers, you have good people who stay there. So you can’t say because someone is bad so everyone there is bad. That’s not it.

“The good people are more in number than the few people who want to rub us black, but God, in His infinite mercy, will not allow evil to prevail over light,” he said.

Wike’s statement is coming after the Rivers State House of Assembly began impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.