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  • Edo poll: Video shows APGA candidate tearing ballot papers

    Edo poll: Video shows APGA candidate tearing ballot papers

    A video which has gone viral on the internet has shown candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, tearing ballot papers at the polling unit where he voted in Oredo local government area.

    The video which lasted about two minutes recorded Onaiwu shouting and tearing ballot papers at a polling unit and walking to another polling unit.

    A boy in the video was seen throwing a table away while other electoral materials were scattered on the ground.

    When contacted for comments, Onaiwu confirmed tearing the ballot papers but claimed that the ballot papers were earlier snatched by some thugs he said were working for the APC.

    His words, “The video they are showing that is my polling units. APC thugs brought thugs and took the ballot away. They brought them back and said we should continue counting.

    “I said no and refused the papers to be counted. That was how I threw the ballot papers away. I am not a coward. You cannot return ballot papers that were earlier taken away. All my family members voted for me there and I am expected to win. Let them be sharing the video online.”

    Onaiwu also led a protest against the results released by INEC on the governorship polls.

    He said it was wrong for INEC to declare results in an election marred by irregularities.

    The APGA candidate said he could not have gotten 876 votes after carrying out rigorous campaigns across the 18 local government areas of the state.

    He said police cannot stop anybody from carrying out protests against the outcome of an election conducted by INEC in the state.

    Mr Onaiwu alleged that his results were manipulated because he refused to give bribe to some INEC officials adding that votes from Igbo and Esans were not added.

     

  • Edo polls: ‘Why election cannot hold on September 28’

    Edo polls: ‘Why election cannot hold on September 28’

    The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has said he would petition the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on why the governorship election fixed for September 28 must be postponed again.

    It said the governorship polls must be organized to accommodate candidates in the 2016 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examinations in the state.

    Governorship candidate of APGA, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, said the September 28 date was not feasible because some students were expected to write Physics practical, Food Nutrition 1 and 2 papers and two other papers on that day.

    Onaiwu noted that the clash of dates would disenfranchise the students and also prevent them from voting for his party.

    He said that there “nothing wrong” in shifting the election further to October 1.

    The former Director General of the Governors Forum‎ said the earlier postponed election was necessary in order to secure the future of the youth and promote education.

    Onaiwu said: “On Wednesday 28, there is Physics. After the holidays, I think I am going to do a letter to WAEC and INEC, alerting them that (September) 28 is not convenient. We must accommodate those people writing exams.

    “They should take it (exam) to October 1. There is nothing wrong if we do the election on Independence Day, as long as we must have a governor that would be sworn in on November 12.”

  • Guber poll: APGA promises to build fashion village in Edo

    Guber poll: APGA promises to build fashion village in Edo

    Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the September 10, governorship election, in Edo State, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, has promised members of the Tailors and Fashion Design Association (TAFDAN) that he would build a fashion village in the state if elected as governor.

    This promise is coming 24 hours after tailors in the state threatened to pull support from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over unfulfilled promises by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

    Onaiwu who was the former Director General of the PDP Governors’ Forum said the fashion village would be equipped with all necessary infrastructures for the fashion industry to attract more investors to Edo State.

    He said his intention is to create a better business environment for the textile and Fashion industry to excel.

    In a press statement issued yesterday in Benin City, Onaiwu said his administration would also focus on employable education whereby everyone trained in any vocation is gainfully employed before finishing the formal  training.

    Onaiwu enjoined all eligible voters in the state not to mortgage their future for temporary frivolous gifts from selfish politicians who do not have their wellbeing at heart.

  • Edo 2016: Osarodion Onaiwu emerges APGA candidate

    Edo 2016: Osarodion Onaiwu emerges APGA candidate

    Former Director General of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governor’s Forum, Mr Osaro Onaiwu has picked the governorship ticket of the All Progress Grand Alliance (APGA) in Edo state.

    He emerged the candidate of the party ahead the September 10 governorship election after polling 372 votes.

    It would be recalled that Onaiwu who was one of the governorship aspirants of the PDP pulled out from the PDP race few weeks to the primaries of the party after he alleged plans to rig the primaries in favour of one of the aspirants.

    Onaiwu who disclosed to journalists that he will kick off his campaigns next week, said “I am willing to serve my people and we have come up with our four pillars, which is security, trade and Commerce, agriculture and industrialization. Once we are able to achieve those four then we are home and dry.

    “Dangote has come to Edo state to invest because Edo is peaceful, we will improve on what the incumbent governor has done so that we will accelerate development to our people”.

    Asked why he left the PDP before the primaries of the party, Onaiwu narrated that “the party leaders were not serious. They lie every day of their lives. For me I have taken my vision to another party that I believe where they will celebrate my vision not a fraudulent party. I have moved on, I have no scandal but we know that one of the PDP candidates have been visiting the EFCC.

    “APGA will take over the state, it is a new dawn, I don’t have a god father, God is my god father. If you look at the candidates of the two other political parties they have a god father but God is my god father. I will lead my people where there is milk and honey,” he stated.