Governor Oshiomhole Attacked At National Dialogue Committee Meeting

The meeting of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National dialogue with stakeholders in the South-South yesterday ended in confusion, following an outburst from participants against a remark made by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

Governor Oshiomhole was whisked away from the venue by his security details when the situation became tense.

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 when they stopped Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and others from making contributions to the ongoing talks.

A member of 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 as soon as they realized that his contributions would be different 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 objects to spending huge public funds on a wasteful venture saying, during the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo, money was spent on similar conference and at the end, nothing came out of that conference.

"I will be surprised if anything changes. Sincerely, I have no business to deceive or mislead anyone. I believe that the outcome of this conference will not be different from that of other conferences we have had in the past."

While Governor Oshiomole was still making his contribution, Nyiam started shouting, saying the governor to shut up and sit down. He was then joined in by the PDP thugs who disrupted the whole proceedings and many scampered for safety as a result of the unruliness.