Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC National President Adams Oshiomhole has denied responsibility for the protests in Edo State.
Oshiomhole issued the refusal in response to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki’s call for his arrest following protests in Benin City.
The former governor said the call for his arrest was unnecessary because he had never called for a protest.
Speaking through his spokesman, Victor Oshioke, he said he was only asking the people of the state to bully the People’s Democratic Party with their campaigns, not violence.
A statement from Oshioke reads:
“If Oshiomhole used the word intimidate, he said they should intimidate them with their own campaign, he said they should not leave the space in Edo for other parties because Edo is an APC state.
“The short video is everywhere, if they have the whole video let them post it and judge it with the short one they have, did he say demonstrate? No.
“Oshiomhole said they should intimidate them with their own crowd, that the APC crowd should be able to intimidate other parties’ crowds in Edo.
“Oshiomhole didn’t make any statement to suggest that anybody should riot against anybody.”
