A former Commissioner for Communication and Orientation in Edo State, Efe Stewart, on Tuesday, denied having hands in the political violence that cost a police officer, Inspector Akor Onuh, his life.
The last Thursday’s attack of the convoy of the reinstated Deputy Governor of the state, Philip Shaibu, and the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo left Onuh dead, with several persons sustaining various degrees of injury.
It got the Peoples Democratic Party and the APC laying the blame at the doorstep of each other, with the state government naming Stewart as one of the perpetrators.
The former Commissioner who dumped the PDP for the APC after moving to the PDP with Governor Godwin Obaseki in 2020, dismissed this charge on Tuesday in Benin, the state capital in an interview with journalists.
“This is to let Edo residents know that I was not involved in last Thursday’s political violence, which claimed the life of a police officer.
“I left the PDP when it became obvious that I could not work with the person spearheading the PDP activities in my local government in Egor,” he said.
