A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Blessing Agbomhere has urged Arise TV to apologize to Monday Okpebholo, the winner of the just-concluded Edo State elections......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
Agbomhere, who is the South-South Organizing Secretary of the party accused the media house of allowing itself to be used by the political opponent of the Governor-elect ahead of the elections held on Saturday, September 21.
During an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, September 25, he said Okpebholo won despite being heavily demarketed by his opponent.
“Before I continue, I want to admonish Arise TV. Arise TV as a platform has been used to demarket our candidate, and I can also tell you that maybe you are shocked that our candidate won because Edo people voted for him, knowing very well what your platform was used to do to our candidate.”
“And I think that Arise TV owes an apology to Senator Monday Okpebholo for allowing itself to be used as a platform to demarket him. But despite the demarketing, we won the elections. Anytime I say that Senator Monday is a silent achiever, people laugh at me.”
He also said Okpebholo, who is an I.T. expert, was instrumental in setting up the transmission structure of Arise TV.
“Do you know he was the one who nurtured this TV when it was being formed? When Arise was being formed, Monday Okpebholo provided IT for the transmission of your program on Internet television. Find out from the owners of this station,” he said.
Senator Monday Okpebholo has emerged victorious in the recently concluded Edo State governorship election.
Okpebholo triumphed over his main challengers, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Faruk Kuta, announced Okpebholo as the winner at the collation center in Benin City, the state capital, on Sunday.
The APC candidate secured 291,667 votes, defeating Ighodalo, who garnered 247,274 votes. Akpata of the LP finished a distant third with 22,763 votes.