(PDP) Edo State, has condemned
the inhuman treatment meted out
on a widow by the State Governor,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The
video which has gone viral
captured the erstwhile
comrade turned emperor, siezing
the poor widows good for selling
by the roadside. Despite pleas
from the woman that she be
pardoned, the governor kicked her
goods and scornfully told her, "you
are a widow, go and die"
The PDP in rescue of the widow
has asked the widow to come to
their office and get the sum of
N250,000 to help cushion the
effects her siezed goods will have
on her. This was contained in a
press release obtained by
Elombah.com and signed by
the state chairman, Dan Orbih.
"Edo PDP watched with
consternation Governor Adams
Oshiomhole’s brutal, inhuman and
merciless treatment of a widow
street-trader whose wares
he ordered seized and who he
unfeelingly told to ‘…go and die’
even as she knelt down in
fervent protestations and appeals
to his pity on a helpless widow.
The governor’s actions are
appalling, insensate, disgraceful,
indecent, cruel and below board.
It is clear that he does not care
much about the well being of the
people as he pretentiously
avowed. Our hearts go to that
hapless widow in this her time
of travails and through her, to
other widows who have been
oppressed by the unfriendly
policies of the administration in
Edo State.
The PDP, Edo State will not let any
Edo person ‘to go and die’ if it can
help it, especially not
hardworking people like that
widow who are engaged in
lawful enterprises that are, in
themselves, not easy to carry on.
To this end, our party has
instituted an endowment fund for
all widows and oppressed people
in the state and by this release,
we invite the widow captured in
the video of the encounter
with Governor Oshiomhole to
come to the PDP Secretariat on
No. 70, Sapele Road, at 11am on
Tuesday December 3, 2013 to
receive a first-installment sum of
N250,000.00 to cushion the pain,
trauma and loss occasioned by her
mistreatment and the seizure
of the items she sells. Governance
is about the people and as a
responsible National Institution,
Edo PDP cannot be
unconcerned about the wrong
treatment of indigenes of the
state to whom the present
administration promised heaven
just to win their votes.
We will continue to stand in the
gap to ensure that Edo people
are deservedly fairly treatment If
Governor Oshiomhole believes
that Edo People sinned by voting
him into office, let him
remember that he will account for
his actions, if not to the people
because he apparently does not
think much of them, but to God
Almighty in the short or long run.
We thank all those who have been
humanely concerned about the
plight of the widow and
have stood out vehemently
against the crying shame that was
the insensitive action of a
governor who seems bent on
repaying electoral favor with
ingratitude."
