The PDP candidate made the comment while giving a Sallah message in commemoration of the Eid-el-Kabir festival.
‘Oshiomhole is insensitive,’ Ize-Iyamu says
Ize-Iyamu also assured people of the state that he would be fair to all residents regardless of their religion if elected into office.
Edo State former governor, Adams Oshiomhole
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According to Daily Trust, Ize-Iyamu also said that he would revive industries shut by the policies of “an insensitive government in the past eight years.”
“I am prepared to increase your opportunities to be skilled, equipped and empowered with a small business loan in your community, to give you the power, ready to prosper by doing honest work,” he added.
Ize-Iyamu is set to go head to head with Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the state’s governorship elections on September 28.
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The elections were initially scheduled to hold on September 10, but were postponed for security reasons.
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