By Abiola Olawale
A former Edo state commissioner of information and Media Director of the Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, Kassim Afegbua, has disagreed with Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, following the later’s statement to the effect that the reason he fell out with his predecessor, former governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, was because of the state burial given to the late Chief Tony Anenih.
Afegbua, who was a commissioner under Oshiomhole, in a statement issued on Sunday, lamented that the Edo State governor was using the death and burial of Anenih to score cheap political points.
According to him, Obaseki started having issues with Oshiomhole before Anenih passed on the 28th of October 2018.
He said: “I just read what was attributed to Governor Obaseki as the reason he gave for falling out with Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and I wondered why an executive governor could make such a bogus claim just to score a cheap political point.”
It would be recalled that this is coming after Obaseki, during the Peoples Democratic Party campaign in Esan land for the September governorship election had revealed that one of the problems his administration had with Oshiomhole was that it organised a state burial for the deceased PDP leader.
He had said: “When Chief Tony Anenih died, I gave him a state burial while I was still in the All Progressives Congres, and this is one of the things that caused problems between Oshiomhole and me.
“He said the late Anenih was not an elected official, so why would I give him a state burial? I said the man has done more than many governors, so he deserved it.”
