“Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was Rusticated” – Oshiomhole Says

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has challenged the PDP over its statement regarding Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu
– Oshiomhole says contrary to PDP’s statement, Ize-Iyamu has once been indicted for crime
– The Edo state governor says the PDP gubernatorial candidate was rusticated for 2-years while at UNIBEN
Edo state Governor Adams Oshiomhole has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have not been honest with the Edo people, regarding their gubernatorial candidate’s crime history.
Oshiomhole said that contrary to the claims of the PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu that he has never been indicted for any crime, the PDP candidate was allegedly rusticated by a panel led by Prof Itse Sagay for two years.
The Edo state governor said the the rustication came after Ize-Iyamu allegedly bathed a fellow student with acid at the University of Benin (UNIBEN).
It would be recalled that Ize-Iyamu in an online interview said he was rusticated for being a member of the Pirate confraternity at the University of Benin then and not because he bathed some body with acid.
However, Oshiomhole who spoke at the mega rally of the APC, to round up the governorship campaign of the APC Candidate, Mr Godwin Obaseki, said: “Ize-Iyamu said he has never been indicted in his life. And that he made his first millions when he was 31. Now I challenge him, as a student in UNIBEN, he was rusticated for two years because he poured somebody acid and today the person was paralysed.
It was one of the president’s advisers today, Prof Itsey Sagay that chaired the committee that rusticated Ize-Iyamu.”
On the issue of Bendel Brewery, Oshiomhole narrated: “We have not been able to reopen Bendel Brewery because of the huge debt the PDP left in that place.
I heard Ize-Iyamu saying that they were collecting N25million monthly from Bendel Brewery but now as the custodian of the treasure of Edo state, I can tell you those monies went into private pockets. And by the time they left, Bendel Breweries was owing N2billion, which they borrowed and the company was closed.”
In the same vein, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Charles Idahosa, has revealed why former governor of Edo state and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Lucky Igbinedion, has refused to join the campaign train of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Igbinedion was a two-term governor of the state under the PDP and accused of destroying the state and its economy.
He was also arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged fraud while in office, arraigned and found guilty.
He however plea-bargained with the federal government making him return some amount to the public treasury.
Idahosa, a former director of media and protocol and commissioner for information in Lucky Igbinedion’s administration, said Igbinedion was ashamed to to campaign for Ize-Iyamu because the PDP has nothing to offer as its achievement in the state .
Ize-Iyamu served under Igbinedion but he has maintained that he was a mere appointee and had no much powers unlike when he would finally become the governor if he wins the election slated for August 10, 2016.