Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - The Edo State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Paul Ohonbamu, says the recent visit of the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the state led to a stampede that caused the de@th of three people.
Ohonbamu made the claim in an interview with Channels TV
today July 21. He however failed to mention the area in the state where the
stampede reportedly occurred.
Ohonbamu said
‘’Yes,
intelligent report brought it out, Two d!ed in the hospital. They rushed them
actually. Let me tell you, many of these things, we do not alarm the public
with some of these things. You know that anywhere Obi enters, there is this
euphoria. People do not know him deeply, they just see him and then say ‘This
is Obi, the messiah they want and they rush after him. That euphoria, the
ecstasy can cause stampede but it did not reflect in votes’'
When asked if it was at the school of nursing Obi visited
when he went to the state the said stampede occurred, the Commissioner said
‘’Apart from
going to that school, he went to other places. He cannot just go to that school
and go like that. ‘’
When asked when the stampede happened, he said July 7.
When asked where exactly did the stampede occurred, he said
‘’In Benin,
they took some of them to the hospital. I did not follow Peter Obi to where he
followed but I know that is where it happened. I was supposed to address the
press on it but they said do not panic the public. Peter Obi knows all this.''
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