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Rufai Oseni, His Gang Of Sinuous Fawns Can’t Force Okpebholo To Attend Interview On Arise TV – Afegbua

Prince Kassim Afegbua is the Director of Media, Edo APC Campaign Organisation. In this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he speaks on allegations that the party's governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo has shunned several invitations to grant interview on Arise Television. He also shares his thoughts on developments in Edo state ahead of the September 21 governorship election. Excerpts:

There are talks on social media that your candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo has refused several invitation by Arise Television for an interview while the governorship candidate of the PDP, Asue Ighodalo appeared on the TV station on Monday. What is your reaction to that?

We are professionals in this game. Do you invite a governorship candidate to come for an interview when you are interviewing his opponent? Rufai Oseni was interviewing Asue Ighodalo and he said to him 'Tell the APC candidate to come here for interview oo. We are waiting for him'. Is that the procedure in journalism? If you want to invite a candidate for appearance on your TV programme, you will now be telling the candidate you are interviewing to tell his opponent to come for interview?. When you have professional quacks having opportunity of a platform to ventilate their partisan posture, you don't glamourise them by honouring their invitation. They already have a bias mind and they have taken a position which is antithetical to journalistic practice.
We all went to journalism school and we are gifted differently. Some have platforms which they want to use to 'begin to shine' so to speak. However, journalism must be journalism and there are ethics that must be adhered to. If you want to invite our candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo for a discussion, you don't take a partisan position and you want us to expose him to that kind of interview.
At any rate, our candidate has been busy campaigning all over the state. We needed to cover 192 wards. Don't forget that the #EndBadGovernance protest took away 10 days from our schedule. So, we need to cover a lot of grounds for those days lost. Those who are banking on state power in Edo and are planning to manipulate the election can sit down at home and not campaign. On our part, we are campaigning everyday. At times, we close as late as 9pm before we return to our homes. So, if Rufai Oseni and his gang of sinuous fawns who are behaving like members of Jacobian scandal club of post-independence America are the ones who think they can decide the future of Edo, he will be making a big mistake.We are going to campaign in places where they don't even have electricity to watch Arise television. The people can't even boast of owning a television because Obaseki has killed the political economy of Edo state.

So, what has your candidate been telling the people of Edo so far?

You saw the kind of visuals all over the place as a result of the bad governance that Obaseki has foisted on the people. Everywhere we have bad roads, bad health centres, bad schools and all. You don't need to come to Edo to see all these things. They are all over the internet. There is flooding and erosion and nothing has been done. When you have such a government that is dominated by MOUs without fulfilling campaign promises, you need to prevail on the people to come out en masse to vote for the APC and our candidate.
Our candidate has been raising serious issues during the campaign. He has promised to give interest-free loans to market women. He said he will fix those markets that got burnt in Edo state, particularly in Benin which Obaseki abandoned. Obaseki promised to build the markets but uptill now, he has refused to build. All the roads he constructed, after two years have become pothole-infested roads. Rather than focus on governance, he is busy quarelling with everyone in Edo. He is quarelling with the Oba of Benin. He withheld the artefacts of the monarchy, demolished the Central Hospital to build his own museum. Hospitals that were built by Adams Oshiomhole he has taken it over and handed them over to his friends as consultants. General hospitals in Edo are a complete eyesore as we speak and here is a man who claimed he is finishing strong. So, what are they going to tell the electorates in Edo? When you ask them questions on what they have achieved in the last eight years, you see them blabbing. As we speak, Edo is owing N570 billion and it is number two in the states with the highest debt profile. He is also owing $153 million, which is additional N200 million.
In total, Edo is owing almost N800 million under Obaseki's leadership at a time when the allocation of Edo has increased. In one year of Tinubu's government, we have gotten over N270 billion, in terms of their IGR which is N64.7 billion; 13 percent derivation which is N22.3 billion; FAAC allocation N184 billion; N10 billion security support and N7 billion palliatives. Even it has gotten to a point that when they get support from the federal government, they hide them. The 20 trucks of rice that they got, they went and hide them. Their plan was to rebag the rice the rice to bear the logo of Edo state government. Dangote brought 30,000 bags of rice but they hid them and never let anybody know about it. The federal government also brought several trucks of fertilisers but yet, farmers have not seen one grain of fertilisers. They think it is by blackmailing us with Arise Television that will make Edo people vote for them. They are making a big mistake.
https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/08/28/rufai-oseni-his-sinuous-fawns-cant-force-okpebholo-to-attend-inteview-on-arise-tv-afegbua/

Why are they afraid of interview? All these plenty write up na to just dodge interview

nnatobryno:
Why are they afraid of interview? All these plenty write up na to just dodge interview

so it's right for RUFAI of arise TV telling PDP candidate to inform APC candidate to come for an interview? Is that professional way to invite someone

yarimo:
so it's right for RUFAI of arise TV telling PDP candidate to inform APC candidate to come for an interview? Is that professional way to invite someone

My friend,
it appears you've been following the story.
Please is it true that APC Governorship candidate in Edo cannot communicate effectively in english?

nnatobryno:
My friend,
it appears you've been following the story.
Please is it true that APC Governorship candidate in Edo cannot communicate effectively in english?

Is that what we are discussing here ? Create thread for that

Toh

I've never seen a politician so scared of an ordinary tv interview that should normally promote his candidacy not until this Edo APC candidate came along. What a bloody coward

RZArecta:
I've never seen a politician so scared of an ordinary tv interview that should normally promote his candidacy not until this Edo APC candidate came along. What a bloody coward

He won't appear for an interview on AriseTV and heavens won't fall

Let him try other stations nah

Paraman:
He won't appear for an interview on AriseTV and heavens won't fall

Senator Monday will be heavily defeated in next month governorship poll

mohbadliveson:
Rufai Oseni, His Gang Of Sinuous Fawns Can’t Force Okpebholo To Attend Interview On Arise TV – Afegbua

Prince Kassim Afegbua is the Director of Media, Edo APC Campaign Organisation. In this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he speaks on allegations that the party's governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo has shunned several invitations to grant interview on Arise Television. He also shares his thoughts on developments in Edo state ahead of the September 21 governorship election. Excerpts:

There are talks on social media that your candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo has refused several invitation by Arise Television for an interview while the governorship candidate of the PDP, Asue Ighodalo appeared on the TV station on Monday. What is your reaction to that?

We are professionals in this game. Do you invite a governorship candidate to come for an interview when you are interviewing his opponent? Rufai Oseni was interviewing Asue Ighodalo and he said to him 'Tell the APC candidate to come here for interview oo. We are waiting for him'. Is that the procedure in journalism? If you want to invite a candidate for appearance on your TV programme, you will now be telling the candidate you are interviewing to tell his opponent to come for interview?. When you have professional quacks having opportunity of a platform to ventilate their partisan posture, you don't glamourise them by honouring their invitation. They already have a bias mind and they have taken a position which is antithetical to journalistic practice.
We all went to journalism school and we are gifted differently. Some have platforms which they want to use to 'begin to shine' so to speak. However, journalism must be journalism and there are ethics that must be adhered to. If you want to invite our candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo for a discussion, you don't take a partisan position and you want us to expose him to that kind of interview.
At any rate, our candidate has been busy campaigning all over the state. We needed to cover 192 wards. Don't forget that the #EndBadGovernance protest took away 10 days from our schedule. So, we need to cover a lot of grounds for those days lost. Those who are banking on state power in Edo and are planning to manipulate the election can sit down at home and not campaign. On our part, we are campaigning everyday. At times, we close as late as 9pm before we return to our homes. So, if Rufai Oseni and his gang of sinuous fawns who are behaving like members of Jacobian scandal club of post-independence America are the ones who think they can decide the future of Edo, he will be making a big mistake.We are going to campaign in places where they don't even have electricity to watch Arise television. The people can't even boast of owning a television because Obaseki has killed the political economy of Edo state.

So, what has your candidate been telling the people of Edo so far?

You saw the kind of visuals all over the place as a result of the bad governance that Obaseki has foisted on the people. Everywhere we have bad roads, bad health centres, bad schools and all. You don't need to come to Edo to see all these things. They are all over the internet. There is flooding and erosion and nothing has been done. When you have such a government that is dominated by MOUs without fulfilling campaign promises, you need to prevail on the people to come out en masse to vote for the APC and our candidate.
Our candidate has been raising serious issues during the campaign. He has promised to give interest-free loans to market women. He said he will fix those markets that got burnt in Edo state, particularly in Benin which Obaseki abandoned. Obaseki promised to build the markets but uptill now, he has refused to build. All the roads he constructed, after two years have become pothole-infested roads. Rather than focus on governance, he is busy quarelling with everyone in Edo. He is quarelling with the Oba of Benin. He withheld the artefacts of the monarchy, demolished the Central Hospital to build his own museum. Hospitals that were built by Adams Oshiomhole he has taken it over and handed them over to his friends as consultants. General hospitals in Edo are a complete eyesore as we speak and here is a man who claimed he is finishing strong. So, what are they going to tell the electorates in Edo? When you ask them questions on what they have achieved in the last eight years, you see them blabbing. As we speak, Edo is owing N570 billion and it is number two in the states with the highest debt profile. He is also owing $153 million, which is additional N200 million.
In total, Edo is owing almost N800 million under Obaseki's leadership at a time when the allocation of Edo has increased. In one year of Tinubu's government, we have gotten over N270 billion, in terms of their IGR which is N64.7 billion; 13 percent derivation which is N22.3 billion; FAAC allocation N184 billion; N10 billion security support and N7 billion palliatives. Even it has gotten to a point that when they get support from the federal government, they hide them. The 20 trucks of rice that they got, they went and hide them. Their plan was to rebag the rice the rice to bear the logo of Edo state government. Dangote brought 30,000 bags of rice but they hid them and never let anybody know about it. The federal government also brought several trucks of fertilisers but yet, farmers have not seen one grain of fertilisers. They think it is by blackmailing us with Arise Television that will make Edo people vote for them. They are making a big mistake.
https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/08/28/rufai-oseni-his-sinuous-fawns-cant-force-okpebholo-to-attend-inteview-on-arise-tv-afegbua/

Ok, if he won't appear before Rufai Oseni and Arise TV, he should appear before Seun Okinbaloye or Geoffrey Uzono and Channels or even The AIT Kakaaki crew.

I have listened to Asue Ighodalo and Olumide Akpata speak and discuss their agenda and plans for the state, Monday Okpebolo should also speak. You guys can't hide him they way you hid Buhari and Tinubu who turned out to be failures.

I prefer debate to interview

mairogo:
Ok, if he won't appear before Rufai Oseni and Arise TV, he should appear before Seun Okinbaloye or Geoffrey Uzono and Channels or even The AIT Kakaaki crew.

I have listened to Asue Ighodalo and Olumide Akpata speak and discuss their agenda and plans for the state, Monday Okpebolo should also speak. You guys can't hide him they way you hid Buhari and Tinubu who turned out to be failures.

nnatobryno:
My friend,
it appears you've been following the story.
Please is it true that APC Governorship candidate in Edo cannot communicate effectively in english?

The word effectively is asking for too much.

The guy can't speak English...even Oshomole was ashamed of the guy on stage when the guy was speaking. In another campaign ground,they were telling him to what say.

COMRADES are speechless at Okpegbolo over his refusal to honour Rufai and co's invitation on Arise TV