Oshiomhole Responsible For Benin Violence–Edo Commissioner

<h4>Oshiomhole Responsible For Benin Violence<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Edo State Commissioner for Orientation and Communication&comma; Chris Nehikhare has accused the former governor of the state and ex-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;&comma; Adams Oshiomhole of instigating the protest in Benin City over the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria &lpar;CBN&rpar;&comma; which led to the violence and destruction of property worth millions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nehikhare speaking to journalists in Benin City to address the protests in some areas of the State&comma; called on security agencies to invite and interrogate Oshiomhole for instigating the protests in a viral video circulated on social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I call on security agencies to call Oshiomhole for questioning&period; He should be interrogated&comma; arrested&comma; and made to account for his movement in Benin City a few days ago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a viral video on social media&comma; he was heard deliberately instigating APC members to go on a rampage and intimidate people in Benin City&comma; destroying government property&comma; and bringing anarchy to the country because the government of his party is about to lose the forthcoming general election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The political party responsible for this policy is the same party that has sent their APC thugs to destroy the billboards of PDP candidates&period; PDP is not the government at the center&period; So&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s clear that this is politically motivated&period; We are pointing fingers directly at Oshiomhole as he has given a command to his tigers to unleash mayhem and anarchy&period; He continues to go against the laws of the land because he wants to be part of the next government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The situation is bad&semi; Edo people should be patient as CBN has assured the Edo State government that there is enough money to go round&period; CBN believes that they have made the necessary arrangements for naira exchange in the State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is a systematic protest organized across the country by the APC&semi; they targeted Edo&comma; Delta&comma; and Oyo States and these States are PDP States&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t make sense for PDP States to be attacking PDP infrastructure when the policy causing the problems is an APC policy&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;APC as a party sat down to cause mayhem&comma; create anarchy across the country because they want a postponement of the election&period; Their candidate&comma; Bola Tinubu spoke about postponing the election&period; This is the plan they are putting in place to achieve their aim because they know that they can&&num;8217&semi;t win the elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;APC has started a new trend of attacking and intimidating an APC government&period; Our people should be patient and use their PVC to chase this government out of power&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On his part&comma; the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media Projects&comma; Crusoe Osagie&comma; added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Edo people should be calm&period; Save your vengeance and visit it on them on Election Day by identifying the political party that caused the pain and voting them out&period; Enthrone the party that can bring succor&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;