Oshiomhole’s media aide reacts to car crash, says it was an assassination attack
Victor Oshioke, Media aide to ex National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has reacted to yesterday’s accident involving his principal. as said that the accident was an assassination attack.
Oshioke said that the accident was an assassination attack, insisted that the car crash did not just happen.
Part of the statement reads, “It is pertinent to state, without fear of contradiction, that the convoy of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was maintaining legal speed limits when this incident occurred.
“This explains why the trailer travelling in the same direction overran the Hilux truck off the road and still hit the SUV carrying Comrade Oshiomhole, causing substantial damage.
“Without prejudice to police investigations, eyewitnesses accounts of the incident suggest, and we believe rightly too, that this was an assassination attempt, targeting Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,”
An articulated vehicle lost control and ran into Oshiomhole’s convoy near Oluku junction in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State and in the cause of the accident, two policemen attached to the convoy lost their lives.
On the other hand, the Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said, “I received the news of the accident with shock and commiserate with the former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the candidate of the APC in the forthcoming governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu over the very unfortunate incident involving their security aides and top chieftains of the party in the campaign team.”
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