- We don’t have hard copy evidence against Amegor – Henry Idahagbon
By Ehi Ekhator.
An Edo State based lawyer and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reacted to Amegor’s assertion that he was suspended over his support for the deputy governor, Pius Odubu.
Speaking with NAIJA CENTER NEWS on Thursday, Uwoghiren took a sweep on Senatorial Leader and the state Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress over a statement credited to him, adding that he deserved the suspension for not being a firm leader.
He also cleared that those who signed the petition have the party and the legal backings to do so. He noted that the Attoney General of the state openly said he has evidence that indicted the Senatorial Leader of taking money from PDP to compromise the presidential election.
He condemned the decision of Gentleman Amegor to support Odubu instead of party decision. He advised the embattled Vice chairman to submit himself to party rules and regulation in resolving such crisis.
The Advocate also took a sweep on the APC publicity Secretary, Mr. Erhabon Godwin, said he has turned to Odubu Publicity Secretary instead of his party.
His words: “Every political person here have interest and they have rights to support candidates of their choice, But the personal decision to support a personal aspirant within your party come with a price. The position of Senatorial Leader is a very important position in a party and if you look at the performance of APC in the last election, you would see that they dropped in their ratings and performed so woefully.
“One would expect that the action comrade and the APC in Edo State would respond very aggressively to channelling their image through more proactive and responsible policy.
“The Attorney General of Edo State came out to say openly that they have evidence that the Senatorial Leader, Gentleman Amegor of their party took money from the opposition to compromise the party during the last election. No responsible party would see allegation lying low without investigating it, you cannot investigate such allegation when the man still occupies the office. He is ” suspended and not removed and they have set up a committee to look into the allegation.
“Barrister Amegor should submit himself to party procedure for resolving such allegation. The issue of whether he is supporting a certain aspirant should not arise. He should quietly and responsibly answer questions on the allegation. Of course there is no denying the fact that there are other interests that are outside, but for the Attorney General to say that he has evidence that the man compromise the party interest during the last election, I don’t see any party that will be happy about that.
“Since the last time the man was elected as the Senatorial Leader, they said he has never conveyed one meeting of the senatorial leadership of the party. They have their structure, he is the state vice chairman and people are concerned about that. They have executives, they have seven in the local government and out of this seven, five signed the document that Amegor should be suspended, that means there is a problem.
Those allegations like ‘i am being removed because i support Pius Odubu’ are excuses that should not arise. The important part i expect people to be asking and addressing is the point that, do those people who issued the suspension have the legal representative and capacity to take the action they took? Do they have party backup to carry out what they did?
Anyone in Oshiomhole government who crossed some lines now, or fall foul of the rule of the party will blame the party action on his or her support for Odubu. These are statement that reflects blackmail.
“We should respect APC to take decision they have taken. The Party state chairman or the national party chairman has not debunked the suspension; he has not made any statement that the decision is illegal. So if the suspension is illegal, the state chairman is the right person to say so and not the publicity secretary. We all know that in the past few months, the publicity secretary, Mr. Erhahon Godwin has turned to public secretary of Odubu campaign and not of his party.
“I see a lot of suspension coming up, naturally, nobody will like to empower his enemies. This is the time to make political enemies.
“If Gentleman Amegor said he was suspended because of his personal support for Pius Odubu, that is an admission that is supposed to lead to what he has just experience. We have over five aspirants from Edo South who are members of his party, why will he openly be supporting Odubu as if he is not aware that Ogiemwonyi, Ogie Osarodion, Godwin Obaseki, and the other Don Pedro Obaseki are contesting, it is an affirmation for his removal. If the party have zoned the governorship to his senatorial zone, he should then be the father of everybody and make sure the best person represents instead of picking his own. What kind of prayers will he pray for other aspirants if they come to see him with a kola?
“A leader must remain firm, covertly or overtly. He should not have interest in any aspirant. But when he had taken a position, it is an indication for others to do the same. That was exactly what Lucky Imansuen did to PDP. He sat with cabals and collected money from different people, giving order on who will go and will not. Till today, PDP is still suffering the action of Imansuen, some of us were victims of such irrational action and is exactly what Amegor is doing in Egor.
“I am sure Imansuen must have corrupted Gentleman Amegor. Amegor should stop fooling himself by saying “i was removed because of my support for Odubu”. He has admitted partisanship, he has admitted wickedness, he has admitted that he betrayed people who looked up to him, and he has betrayed their trust because as the Senatorial Leader, he is supposed to give advice to all the aspirants without picking his favourite. It is when the leadership of the party comes to him and pronounce who they are supporting before he could make such announcement and not having his personal favourite like in this current circumstance.”
Uwoghiren admitted that Odubu has equal right like others to contest the governorship election, but adding that he is not the owner of APC.
“Odubu is not APC, he is not the owner of APC, how much did Odubu put in, is he the one that created APC in Edo South? He was invited like every other person. He has every right to become the governor of Edo State, but the manner they are trying to smuggle him, they are locked out, they cannot force anybody on anybody.”
“Defending the state governor’s action to support Godwin Obaseki, Barr. Uwoghiren said “it is very idiotic for anybody to say that. The governor can only say this is the man i like because people consider him. He cannot force someone on a do or die. If you check the profile, Obaseki is ahead of the other aspirant, is it by popularity? Some people are notoriously popular. Anini was very popular in Edo State, what determined popularity? Over what knowledge, or intention, popularly in ability to steal, lie, plunder and loot the economy? We don’t need a man who w ill sit there and be feeding and helping others to feed. If it requires going to higher person or the university to search for somebody as we did to Ali, we are ready to do that, we are not looking for popular person to kill us, we know who we want and don’t want.
If the senatorial leader is taking side, what stop Oshiomhole from taking side? Is it not normal to find someone to an office you stayed for eight years? Oshiomhole should be concerned about the person who takes over from him. Oshiomhole has created a lot of enemies; he should be accorded some respect. He is not my friend, i never like him because of his approach but he should be respected.
When contacted by NAIJA CENTER NEWS, the Attorney General of Edo State, Barrister Henry Idahagbon who was one of the signatory that suspended the Senatorial Leader, addressed the evidence against Gentleman Amegor.
Idahagbon confirmed signing the suspension, adding that a panel has been set up to investigate the allegation bordering on anti-party activity.
The Attoney said “Yes my name was mentioned. I signed his suspension resolution. The party has evidence of his collection of funds from the pdp before the last presidential election
“We already have a panel to take the evidence.
“There’s no copy. It’s oral evidence from those close to him who knew he collected money from Anenih. Some of them are even pdp members
“If they are lying the events of Election Day supports their claim. He has a right to support his preferred aspirant just as the governor has his right. Nobody can fault him on this. He’s the one ostracizing people he believes aren’t supporting his aspirant
When asked if the crisis will affect the outcome of the coming governorship election, Idahagbon said “No internal division yet that we can’t manage. At the eve of any election these things do happen in our politics
“The governor has not and will not annoit Mr. Obaseki . What the governor has said is that he believes Mr. Obaseki is most competent out of the motley crowd jostling to be the governors
Speaking on the pictures of bag of rice with the governor and Mr. Obaseki’s pictures imprinted on it, Idahagbon said “Not correct. That stuff is an Internet creation!
“Especially after we exposed bags of rice with pastor ize iyamu’s picture
“People saw the pastor’s rice here. Obaseki’a was thereafter created
“You are free to ask anybody if they ever saw any bag of rice with obaseki’s pix. I should know if there were
Why Gentleman Amegor deserved the suspension - Barr. Uwoghiren
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