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‘I Was Ashamed Seeing Obaseki Celebrating Oshiomhole’s Suspension’ – Ize-Iyamu

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6 years ago

March 6, 2020

A top aspirant in the forthcoming gobernorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu says he was very ashamed when he saw governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki dancing and celebrating a court order that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole should cease from parading himself as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Meanwhile, the FCT High Court ordering the suspension of Oshiomhole as national chairman of the party has been put aside by a Federal High Court sitting in Kano.

Ize-Iyamu, while briefing the press yesterday on behalf of other aspirants and their supporters in Benin said it is shameful and unimaginable Obaseki could jubilate and celebrate the suspension of an eminent son of Edo, adding that the same man God used in bringing him (Obaseki) into power he was celebrating his down fall.

The former Secretary to Edo State government recalled that Oshiomhole campaigned and did all the talk for Obaseki in the cause of his campaign when he (Obaseki) could not talk hence it’s unfortunate he could celebrate the downfall of a man who did all that to him.

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu addressing the press yesterday in Benin

He said, “What we find very shameful is the jubilation in some quarters in Edo over the so called court order removing the national chairman. I was ashamed to see the governor of Edo State, elected under the platform of the APC rejoicing that an eminent son of Edo State, a former governor of the state, the man who God used to even put him there has been removed as national chairman.

“The man who campaigned for him (Obaseki) when he could not campaign; the man who spoke for him everywhere they went, I was ashamed to see the governor jubilating and dancing all over Benin that Adams Oshiomhole has been removed as national chairman.”

Ize-Iyamu, while recalling that the same jubilation and dancing came from the same quarters when the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board head by an eminent Edo son was disbanded, said removal of Oshiomhole as national chairman of the APC does not guarantee Obaseki second term.

“I want to ask, does the removal of Oshiomhole as national chairman guaranteed the second term of Obaseki? Of course no! So, for me it is rediculous for Obaseki to think that if the national chairman is removed it translates to automatic second term ticket for him, that is no true. It shows how shallow they are in their thinking”, he said.

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Leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Western Zone, have expressed displeasure over what they described as the “persistent marginalisation of the Ijaw political class, traditional institutions and the ongoing abandonment of Ijaw communities,” by the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led Edo State government.

The IYC, in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Nicholas Igrama, Barr. Ebi Olowolayemo and Comrade Tare Magbei, Western Zone Chairman, Secretary and Information Officer respectively, lamented that despite the “massive support Ijaw people gave to Okpebholo across the five Ijaw clans in the state,” not a single appointment has been given to the Ijaw speaking people in the state.

The statement which was made available to newsmen in Benin on Tuesday, said that the “conspicuously absent of Ijaw man or woman in the State Executive Council,” gives credence to their claim.

The IYC, while stating that “we state this not out of bitterness or entitlement, but as a call for fairness, equity, and justice,” emphasized that “despite our enormous contributions to the state’s treasury through natural and human resources, Edo Ijaws remain conspicuously absent in the State Executive Council.”

The statement reads: “It is important to remind the Governor that the Ijaw nation mobilised massive support across the five Ijaw clans in Edo State to ensure his victory at the polls.

“Our voice was loud, our mobilisation was firm, and our votes counted significantly toward the success of this administration.

“Regrettably, one year after, this government has not deemed it necessary to appoint a single individual from the Ijaw extraction, nor has it addressed the glaring infrastructure deficit in our communities and also left our traditional issues unattented to.”

The statement noted that “the Ijaw areas are the bedrock of the state’s oil wealth, the same wealth that qualifies Edo State as an oil-producing state and entitles it to the 13% derivation fund. Yet, there is no visible reflection of this revenue in our communities.”

“We state this not out of bitterness or entitlement, but as a call for fairness, equity, and justice.”

The IYC, therefore, urged the governor to “have a rethink so it doesn’t take to another form of agitation in the state where we contribute.”

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In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Tinubu disclosed Musa’s nomination as the successor to Alhaji Mohammed Badaru, who resigned on Monday.

Musa served as Chief of Defence Staff from 2023 until October 2025. He won the Colin Powell Award for Soldiering in 2012.

Born in Sokoto in 1967, Musa received his primary and secondary education there before attending the College of Advanced Studies in Zaria.

He graduated in 1986 and enrolled at the Nigerian Defence Academy the same year, earning a Bachelor of Science degree upon graduation in 1991.