We have not forgotten what you did in 2013— George tells Oshiomhole

Former Governor of Edo State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been reminded of a 2013 incident where his encounter with a poor widow in the street of Benin, didn't end well.

Oshiomhole who at the time was serving his second term as Governor of Edo State, was said to be leading officials of the state to sanitize the city of Benin, in the State's capital where he eventually came across a roadside hawker who knelt before him, begging for her little means of livelihood to be saved. She pleaded that she’s a widow.


But her pleas fell on the governor’s deaf ear. In what could be regarded as the most unkind cut of all, the governor said the widowed woman should “go and die”!

Afterwards he stood for some seconds looking indifferently on how the officials took the women’s belongings away, and he left the scene.

Although Oshiomhole later apologized saying he made the comments in anger, and never really meant what he said, the incident appears to have never died off as some Nigerians still believe the then governor only apologized because of the backlash he received following the incident.

Now seven years later, Emmanuel George, in reaction to Oshiomole's claims of being the reason Obaseki became a Governor despite being the wrong man for the job, reminded the former Governor that his recent behavior is a true reflection of who he really was, and made it all the more clear that his attitude toward the poor widow in 2013, wasn't induced by anger as he claimed.



In a Facebook comment on our Critical Voices page, George said, "Nigerians know you for your extremely rancid behavior in the public. We haven't forgotten the indecent manner you publicly humiliated a poor struggling mother and widow with children to support. Even when she profusely apologised for being ignorant of general clean up, you threw caution over board to abused and yell at her venomously for displaying her petty wares of charcoal roasted plantain and peanuts (boli and epa) by the street corner in Benin."

Oshiomhole is confident that he has the influential power to correct the mistake he made by helping Obaseki become Governor in 2016, and that he's not going anywhere until his mission is accomplished.

Oshiomhole while addressing party faithful and supporters at a welcome home rally at Iyamho in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, told the crowd that his immediate task now is to ensure victory for the party on September 19.


“I have come home for only one project, I am not going back to Abuja until the project is completed. I came back home not to rest, but to work. We are political lions, we must commit ourselves to returning Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to Osadebe Avenue," he said.