CRPP, Kassim Afegbua clash over criticism of Okpebholo’s administration

The enactment of the Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CRPP, and the Edo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prince Kassim Afegbua, are successful a warfare of words implicit the former’s continued disapproval of the State Governor, Monday Okpebholo.

DAILY POST reports that Afegbua, connected June 11, 2026, during a property league successful Benin City, accused the enactment of CRPP of peddling mendacious and unfounded allegations against Governor Okpebholo.

Afegbua was circumstantial connected the group’s disapproval of the Children’s Day solemnisation connected May 27, 2026, astatine the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium, wherever respective students collapsed arsenic a effect of a stampede.

The stampede was reported to person occurred erstwhile bouncers of a backstage information outfit, who were astatine the venue, allegedly fired capsicum spray and teargas to diffuse the unruly behaviour of immoderate of the antheral students against their pistillate counterparts.

The commissioner had said astatine the property league that lone 17 students were affected by the teargas and not 50, arsenic allegedly stated by the group.

According to him, with notation to the caller teardrop state incidental astatine the Sam...