Suspended Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Festus Ebea, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not offer any of the members that defected to PDP from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, money to defect.
He added that he was ready to go to the Oba of Benin shrine to swear that they were not offered money to dump the APC.
Ebea, who spoke with Aviation reporters at the Muritala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, said it was the state governor, Adams Oshiomole, who offered him money not to defect to PDP, adding that the current crisis rocking the Edo Assembly was due to the high handedness of the APC leadership in the state.
Edo State Assembly has been unable to sit as a full House since June when thugs evaded the premises and members engaged in a free-for-all.
Two factions of the House have emerged with 15 APC members belonging to one faction, while the other nine members, who are now PDP members in another.
Ebea, who is the leader of the PDP said “We are challenging him,(Oshiomole), let’s go to the Oba’s palace. I am a Christian, a communicant. I now said God because we are Africans, let me get to the level that people will really say, he is trying to prove his innocence. Let’s go to the Oba shrine and swear on who collected money. You heard that I collected N50 million from PDP or N75 million.
“I will swear that if PDP ever offered me money, I will swear even with my family, then Governor Oshiomhole too will swear if PDP actually gave me money and after that I will equally asked him to swear if he offered me money or not, because I was offered money by APC and I refused. Yes, Oshiomhole shared money to the so-called APC members. He offered them money and they know it.”
He accused the governor of high handedness and betraying APC’s founding members in the state.
“Before, people used to say Oshiomhole is the man of the people but he automatically changed. When they shout President Goodluck Jonathan is ruling with impunity or that ‘they stopped my plane,’ don’t listen to them. Governor Oshiomhole is the greatest peddler of impunity.”
He added that he was ready to go to the Oba of Benin shrine to swear that they were not offered money to dump the APC.
Ebea, who spoke with Aviation reporters at the Muritala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, said it was the state governor, Adams Oshiomole, who offered him money not to defect to PDP, adding that the current crisis rocking the Edo Assembly was due to the high handedness of the APC leadership in the state.
Edo State Assembly has been unable to sit as a full House since June when thugs evaded the premises and members engaged in a free-for-all.
Two factions of the House have emerged with 15 APC members belonging to one faction, while the other nine members, who are now PDP members in another.
Ebea, who is the leader of the PDP said “We are challenging him,(Oshiomole), let’s go to the Oba’s palace. I am a Christian, a communicant. I now said God because we are Africans, let me get to the level that people will really say, he is trying to prove his innocence. Let’s go to the Oba shrine and swear on who collected money. You heard that I collected N50 million from PDP or N75 million.
“I will swear that if PDP ever offered me money, I will swear even with my family, then Governor Oshiomhole too will swear if PDP actually gave me money and after that I will equally asked him to swear if he offered me money or not, because I was offered money by APC and I refused. Yes, Oshiomhole shared money to the so-called APC members. He offered them money and they know it.”
He accused the governor of high handedness and betraying APC’s founding members in the state.
“Before, people used to say Oshiomhole is the man of the people but he automatically changed. When they shout President Goodluck Jonathan is ruling with impunity or that ‘they stopped my plane,’ don’t listen to them. Governor Oshiomhole is the greatest peddler of impunity.”
