Edo 2020: Command your boys to cease fire, Benin monarch urges candidates

September 2, 2020

R-L: John Odigie-Oyegun, former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC); Adams Oshiomhole, immediate past governor of Edo State; Philip Shaibu, Edo State deputy governor/PDP deputy governorship candidate; Godwin Obaseki, Edo State governor/PDP governorship candidate, and others, during a peace meeting with the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State, Tuesday.

Worried by the political violence ahead of the September 19 Edo State governorship election, the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, on Wednesday called on political actors to prevail on their foot-soldiers and supporters to stop heating up the polity in the state. The Benin monarch made the call durin

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