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By Guardian Nigeria
04 June 2024 | 1:15 americium
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has banned the activities of Okaigheles (Youth Leaders) successful Edo South Senatorial District, arsenic portion of a renewed effort to tackle cultism successful the state.
ObasekiPDP postpones inauguration of Edo guber run council
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has banned the activities of Okaigheles (Youth Leaders) successful Edo South Senatorial District, arsenic portion of a renewed effort to tackle cultism successful the state.
In different development, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has postponed, indefinitely, the inauguration of the Edo State Governorship Election National Campaign Council earlier scheduled to beryllium held today.
Obaseki disclosed the prohibition to journalists aft a closed-door gathering with information chiefs successful the state, astatine the Government House, Benin City. Noting that astatine slightest 150 persons had been mislaid to cult-related activities and homicide since January 2024, Obaseki said his authorities declared full warfare against cultism and acceptable up a peculiar task unit of the Security Council headed by the Director, Department of State Services (DSS) that volition reappraisal each cult-related incidental successful the state.
He said, “We person conscionable finished the information assembly meeting, wherever we reviewed the information concern successful Edo since January 2024 with peculiar accent connected the information activities successful Edo successful May 2024.
“From the information absorption study considered successful our information meeting, we inactive person a nagging contented successful Edo, which is cultism. The incidence is precise high. What is peculiarly worrisome astir cultism is the related homicide that goes with cult-related activities. From January to date, we person mislaid implicit 150 persons to cult-related activities and homicide. We cannot tolerate and judge this concern anymore.”
According to him, related cult activities are activities of Okaigeles successful Edo South. “The assembly has prohibited forthwith activities of Okaigeles successful Edo. Anybody who claims helium is an Okaigele operating successful immoderate assemblage volition beryllium dealt with strictly by the law.
“The result of our information assembly gathering contiguous is that the authorities has declared afloat warfare connected cultists and Okaigeles successful Edo.”The Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, reassured that the information agencies would instrumentality the council’s determination without fearfulness oregon favour.
NATIONAL Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, stated, yesterday, that the postponement was owed to the concern enactment embarked upon by labour unions successful the country.
“A caller day for the inauguration volition beryllium communicated successful owed course,” helium added. The enactment charged each members of the run council, enactment leaders, captious stakeholders, its teeming members and supporters successful Edo and crossed the federation to proceed successful their unrelenting efforts towards the occurrence of its governorship candidate, Dr Asue Ighodalo, successful the September 21, 2024 governorship election.
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has banned the activities of Okaigheles (Youth Leaders) successful Edo South Senatorial District, arsenic portion of a renewed effort to tackle cultism successful the state.
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