I got the following from a verified source. It is a press release from the chambers of Chief Mike Ozekhome:



PRESS RELEASE





The desperado, Adams Oshiomole whose woeful failure to win the Edo State governorship election have set him on the lunatic scene of attempting to set me up by falsely accusing me of stock-pilling arms and ammunition and carrying away ballot boxes, has finally met his waterloo.

The labour leader mistook stint propaganda for fame and popularity, he also mistook his fake public posturing on national issues for acceptability by the Nigerian people.

But when he came into politics, he discovered to his chagrin that politics was a different ball game and kettle of fish entirely. His people do not accept him because they do not believe in him. To underscore his inconsistency and lack of principles, he started his political career by registering with the PDP, when he discovered that he was not recognized nor accepted by the PDP, he, like a veritable political prostitute perched with the ANPP chieftains who threw him out like a dredge of palm wine. Thereafter , he had a brain wave and suddenly remembered that he was supposed to be a labour man after all. And so he anchored in the Labour Party. When it became clear to him that Labour Party had no political structures and would not even win a Local Government Area in Edo State, he ran to the embattling AC. His frantic attempt to woo me to his side having failed the desired result because I know our people do not accept him, he embarked on the use of vendetta, defaming my name with impunity and setting me up in two grand manners to ensure my complete elimination and total annihilation.

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First, he gave false information to soldiers of 195 Battalion, Agenebode that I had arms and ammunitions in my convoy of 5 cars. In a commando-like manner, with soldiers waylaid me and my convoy, ordering everybody out of the vehicles and searching thoroughly after turning the inside of my vehicles up-side-down without any arms and ammunition being found. Of course, it was false and baseless allegation comported to entrap me and annihilate me knowing that I am the political leader of my people, who do not believe in the AC because of fake characters like Adams Oshiomole. The soldiers did not even find a pin nay not even a nail-cutter. The soldiers thereafter saluted and apologized profusely for the embarrassment they caused me based on false information.

The second strategy was to use his 3 personal police escorts, and 9 fierce-looking thugs comprising of a mixture of cultists and OPC men to kidnap and abduct me from near my polling booth towards an unknown destination, the presence of my 2 police escorts and villagers forced them to take me to the Police Area Command at Auchi. Only the three uniformed policemen who are his escorts went to the police station while the nine thugs vanished into thin air, apparently to go and inform Adams that they had brought his hunted-down game to him. To corroborate the fact that he was the mastermind and the chief architect of the mayhem thus far visited on me, Adams came to the police station to taunt me for not supporting what he said my brother and friend (that is himself). And instead supporting Senator Osunbor who is an Esan man and whom he called a stranger. I accused him of perfidy and murderous tendencies and we had a serious verbal altercation and abused each other thoroughly. The C.I.D. officers at the Area Command, Auchi being satisfied that nothing incriminating was found on me nor any illegality perpetuated by me and that the entire incident was a grand set-up by Adams Oshiomole to embarrass and humiliate me for not supporting him, asked me to go home in self recognizance. That is the madness of a failed politician and fake “defender” of citizens’ rights called Adams Oshiomole.





Chief Mike A. A. Ozekhome.