{"id":219412,"date":"2024-09-21T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/former-gov-using-police-helicopter-to-campaign-for-his-partys-candidate-obaseki-alleges\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T06:44:26","slug":"former-gov-using-police-helicopter-to-campaign-for-his-partys-candidate-obaseki-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/former-gov-using-police-helicopter-to-campaign-for-his-partys-candidate-obaseki-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gov Using Police Helicopter To Campaign For His Party&#8217;s Candidate \u2013 Obaseki Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Governor Godwin Obaseki, has alleged that a former Edo state governor is using helicopter, belonging to Nigeria Police to campaign for the opposition party in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Governor, while speaking ahead of the September 21 governorship poll, led this out in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki added that the determination of the Edo people to prevent the All Progressives Congress from reclaiming power.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know what happened in the last few weeks, you would worry for Nigeria. A former governor of a state has more security cover than a sitting governor. A former governor is using a police helicopter to campaign for the opposition in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Edo Guber: Obaseki Made Philip Shaibu Decamp To APC \u2013 Oshiomhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, armed policemen in the state are trying to arrest political opponents. You played a video of one of the people that was abducted. As of today, two people were abducted. This afternoon, again in Esan central.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can police be so biased in the so-called investigation? The crime was committed a month and a half ago at an event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no members of PDP at the event. The IGP has said he was investigating that is why he is detaining people without trial for over three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow these charges have been changed. They were not charged with murder. They were charged with illegal possession of firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-2016813044\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Godwin Obaseki, has alleged that a former Edo state governor is using helicopter, belonging to Nigeria Police to campaign for the opposition party in the State. The outgoing Governor, while speaking ahead of the September 21 governorship poll, led this out in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, on Thursday. Obaseki added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Gov Using Police Helicopter To Campaign For His Party&#039;s Candidate \u2013 Obaseki Alleges - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/former-gov-using-police-helicopter-to-campaign-for-his-partys-candidate-obaseki-alleges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Gov Using Police Helicopter To Campaign For His Party&#039;s Candidate \u2013 Obaseki Alleges - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Godwin Obaseki, has alleged that a former Edo state governor is using helicopter, belonging to Nigeria Police to campaign for the opposition party in the State. 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