Hajiya Aishetu Oshiomhole, mother of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), has rejected Christmas gifts sent to her son, Adams Oshiomhole by his successor in Edo, Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Mr Crusoe Osagie, the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communications, disclosed this in a statement in Benin on Wednesday.

Osagie said the conventional Christmas presents reserved for former governors of the state that were sent to Oshiomhole’s home were returned.


He said that messengers from the state government were dispatched to deliver the gifts on Christmas eve.

“The messengers said they met the mother of the former governor who rejected the items, stating that her son would not accept the gifts.

“The gift items meant for Comrade Oshiomhole include four cows and ten bags of rice”.

He said the distribution of Christmas gifts was an annual ritual by the state government which serves as an expression of love, further strengthening the ties between the government and the people.

He said the gifts were distributed to other government functionaries, political appointees, heads of security agencies, traditional rulers, religious leaders and heads of institutions of higher learning, among other prominent people in the society.

Osagie said Obaseki and Comrade Oshiomhole had been locked in a political tussle over the governor’s policy choices focused on prioritising the peoples’ welfare as against pressures by a handful of politicians to share the state’s resources.

He said the governor had set the political rift aside to perform the ritual of sending the gifts to Comrade Oshiomhole.

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Posted: at 25-12-2019 05:01 PM (4 years ago) | Hero

Imagine giving four cows and ten bags of rice to one person, all in the name of ex governor

Posted: at 25-12-2019 08:15 PM (4 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Imagine giving four cows and ten bags of rice to one person, all in the name of ex governor

My point exactly, when there are those who are in need of food!
Quantify that into cash, that's quite a healthy sum.

Posted: at 25-12-2019 09:18 PM (4 years ago) | Gistmaniac

For someone that can buy a trailer of rice or d cows o.  Why not poor people looking for just a mudu to survive? God will surely judge u all

Posted: at 25-12-2019 10:29 PM (4 years ago) | Gistmaniac

What I  can't comprehend is that why feeling the pocket that is already full? Why four cows to one man that had  his stomach filled up already , there are some home's that can't a cup of rice and chicken this Christmas, it's so sad and shameful

Posted: at 25-12-2019 10:32 PM (4 years ago) | Upcoming

That's another fraud against the state

Posted: at 26-12-2019 01:57 AM (4 years ago) | Newbie

What I  can't comprehend is that why feeling the pocket that is already full? Why four cows to one man that had  his stomach filled up already , there are some home's that can't a cup of rice and chicken this Christmas, it's so sad and shameful

Because they need to bribe to ensure no one goes against their looting of public funds.

Posted: at 26-12-2019 02:57 AM (4 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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