The outgoing Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has recently visited Lagos to deny claims made by governor-elect Senator Monday Okpebholo that he had left the country.
On Sunday night, sources reported Obaseki was still in Lagos.
Obaseki has been the governor of Edo State since 2016, initially representing the All Progressives Congress (APC) before he joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Senator Okpebholo had accused Obaseki of crossing Nigerian borders.
Okpebholo is expected to be sworn in on Tuesday so that Obaseki will lose his immunity from prosecution.
Obaseki told us last week that he’d been told that he might be arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the end of his term.
In a statement issued on Sunday and signed by his media aide, Godspower Inegbe, Okpebholo charged that he didn’t know where Obaseki was.
According to the statement, Obaseki cleared out the government house on Friday before setting off for some undetermined location days before his scheduled departure.
As of Friday, 8th of November, the whereabouts of Obaseki are unknown. He has chased everyone out of Edo State Government House. He has abandoned governance in the state, and he is on the run.
“He has escaped through the road out of Benin. He did not pass through the airport. If he is as popular as he claims, why did he not use the airport to escape? Instead, he hired a bus and disguised himself while escaping from Edo State.
“Obaseki is trying to push out these narratives in order to distract the public. His antics will not work. We know his plans, and we will continue to expose his shenanigans to the Edo people,” the statement narrates.
In the same vein, reports narrate that Obaseki was indeed in Lagos on Sunday evening.
“Obaseki did not flee Nigeria; it is a lie. There was nothing like that. He is in Lagos right now as I speak, so there is no truth to the claim made by the governor-elect,” one of the sources told SaharaReporters.
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