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Jubilant supporters of Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo, yesterday stunned following a reported order to prevent them from processing into the Edo government house to celebrate with the governor.
The supporters, who include market women and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had gathered at the Benin Airport at about 7 am in the morning to give the governor a rousing welcome.
The gathering followed Okpebholo’s resounding victory in the 2024 governorship election legal dispute at the Supreme Court in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
Okpebholo, whose aircraft touched down at the Benin Airport at about 12.40 pm, was welcomed by the supporters amid Jubilation.
The supporters, many of whom were not mobile, proceeded on foot in a road procession with Governor Okpebholo’s motorcades, chanting solidarity songs.
The procession, which lasted for about an hour, terminated at the Edo State government House, where the supporters were informed by security operatives that only Very Important Personalities (VIPs) would be allowed into the government house for refreshments.
The bewildered supporters took turns to lament the development, with many raining insults on the authorities.
“One of the supporters who was identified as Mrs. Ebosele Omogiate said: “In the worst moments of ex-governor Godwin Obaseki, supporters and members were not shabbily treated like this.
“They have won now and have decided to build a wall around themselves,” she added.
“I left my house before 7 am for the airport and stood under the sun for hours before the arrival of the governor.
“We engaged on a road show with the him to the government house, only for us to be shut out. This treatment melted on us is unfair,” another supporter added.
