BEVERLY HILLS, October 13, (THEWILL) – The Edo State Government has said it has absolutely no knowledge of the purported attack on the person or the residence of former Governor of the state and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
In a statement by Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, the government said, “We have no knowledge of the attack. We have also reached out to the Police, and they affirmed that they do not know about such an attack.”
The National spokesman of the APC, Lanre Issa-Onilu had announced the Saturday evening alleged attack describing it an a failed plot to murder Oshiomhole. Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege also condemned it in a statement Sunday.
THEWILL reports that there is no love lost between Oshiomhole and his estranged political protege, Governor Godwin Obaseki.
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