The victory of Pastor Ize-Iyamu in the just concluded election of the PDP primaries at the Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium a few hours ago in Benin City has jotted Governor Adams Oshiomhole to the bone marrow, thereby ordering the immediate ban of the airing of the news in the state own media outfits.
The blazing politician turned televangelist pastor swept his way through the PDP ticket for the September 10th governorship election after defeating his two major rivals; Hon. Matthew Uduiyekemwen and Dr. Solomon Edebiri. Pastor Ize-Iyamu pulled 584, while Hon. Matthew and Dr. Solomon scored 91 and 38, respectively.
A female journalist, (name withheld) who was in Edo State for a period of two weeks on a nonviolence campaign awareness from Lagos State revealed to FreePress that she was shocked when her TV Programme, titled “No Your Aspirants” was removed from the state’s own EBS TV and Radio programmes because Pastor Ize-Iyamu’s name and picture appeared along with the other aspirants across party line.
She further wrote on her Facebook “My TV programme in Benin City for a peaceful election meant to run on the state’s own TV stations was frustrated due to some very bias rules and regulations that suddenly got implemented by the state government was more than a heartbreak…”, she lamented.
Miffed by the development, an activist (name withheld) said it is anachronistic to have such obnoxious rule implemented by any self-respecting government. The activist insisted that such banning order is against the rules of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, NBC. “The state’s own TV and radio stations are run by the tax payers’ money and that qualifies every aspirant/candidate to use the platform for the purpose of selling themselves to the voting public”, the activist said.
When contacted, a senior manager at the Edo Broadcasting Service, EBS, declined to comment on the allegation of preventing other aspirants other than the APC candidate from using the TV/Radio stations.
The last is yet to be heard from the emergent political gimmick as Edo electorate look forward to September 10th governorship election.
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