The meeting of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National dialogue with stakeholders in the South-South today ended in confusion, following an outburst from participants against a remark made by Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Pius Nsogho reports that Governor Oshiomhole was whisked far from the venue by his security details when the specific situation became tense.
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EDO STATE GOV'T PRESS STATEMENT:
Thugs believed to have been hired by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday disrupted the proceedings of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue/Conference in Benin City today as they stopped Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and others from making contributions to the ongoing talks.
A person in the Presidential Advisory Committee, Col Tony Nyiam (rtd) was the arrowhead of the disruption as he shouted down the Governor while making his contribution. The thugs believed to have been imported from neighbouring states heckled the Governor when they seen that his contributions would be distinctive from the perceived opinion.
The Governor who took the stage to make his contribution shortly after the Isoko Ethnic group had made their contribution said he objected to spending huge public funds on a wasteful venture saying, throughout the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo, money was used on similar conference and at the end, nothing came out of the conference.
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