Edo attack: Peter Obi should have informed us before coming – Commissioner

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Kassim Afegbua, says erstwhile Labour Party statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, should person informed the authorities authorities earlier entering the state.

The Commissioner said this connected Wednesday portion fielding questions successful an interrogation connected ‘Politics Today’, a programme connected Channels Television.

He was reacting to the gunmen onslaught connected Peter Obi and different notable chieftains of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

DAILY POST recalls that determination was an ‘assassination attempt’ connected the erstwhile Anambra authorities politician and different members of the ADC successful Edo state, a improvement which has sparked reactions successful Nigeria.

Afegbua besides said that Governor Monday Okpebholo was misinterpreted erstwhile helium made a code past twelvemonth asking Peter Obi to question clearance from him earlier entering the state.

“People misinterpreted what Governor Okpebolo meant erstwhile helium made the connection successful July past year, to the grade that anytime Peter Obi wants to travel to Edo, helium should delight pass the authorities government.

“But due to the fact that Obi is simply a politically exposed person, we would expect that helium would widen the courtesy of informing the authorities of the day.

“What happened successful Edo should beryllium located wrong the ambit of the ADC—one factional radical of the ADC versus different faction of the ADC,” the Co...