check what Ikimi said about Oshiomhole

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu flagged off his
campaign in Benin city
Ikimi, a former minister of foreign affairs,
made this revelation in Benin at the
campaign flag-off of Pastor Osagie Ize-
Iyamu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in the forthcoming governorship
election in the state.
He said if not for the agreement,
Oshiomhole would not have won the election
in 2012, but that after the electoral victory,
the governor betrayed Jonathan.
Daily Post reports that Ikimi revealed that
part of the agreement reached between
Jonathan and Oshiomhole was the level-
playing field the president approved during
that election that got the governor victory.

He said prior to the second term election,
the All Progressives Congress (APC) planned
to drop Oshiomhole, but that he (Ikimi)
saved the governor who came to him and
knelt down to beg.
According to Ikimi, Oshiomhole won the
election, not because of merit but because
the former minister and Pastor Osagie Ize-
Iyamu took him to Jonathan to demand for a
level playing field,
He also mentioned the roles played by like
Chief Gabriel Igbinedion and Chief Tony
Anenih, a former works minister.
“Pastor Ize-Iyamu brought Oshiomhole to me.
I never knew him before. I was told he was a
former Labour leader. I was persuaded to
accept him and we took him round the 192
wards.

“In his first four years, he betrayed us. We
wanted to drop him but he knelt down to beg
me.
“It was myself and Pastor Ize-Iyamu that took
Oshiomhole to former President Jonathan to
beg him to provide a level playing field.”
“Jonathan supported us. Oshiomhole won not
because he was brilliant, but he has paid us
in band coin,” he said.
Meanwhile, the governor has been dragged
before the Federal High Court in Benin, by
the former state executive director of
Poverty Alleviation and Women Mobilisation,
Evelyn Igbafe, over alleged threat to life and
abuse of her rights.

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