Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the just concluded governorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has debunked claims that he is under pressure from the APC leaders to accept defeat.<\/p>\n
Ize-Iyamu, in a statement signed by his Director of Communication and Media, John Mayaki, called on media houses to disregard such speculations.<\/p>\n
Ize-Iyamu said he was shocked after seeing reports alleging he begged Governor Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to return to APC after the election.<\/p>\n
The APC chieftain said that while he was yet to respond to the first report, another one emerged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will restate that I never begged him to return after the election. I deliberately did not reply when I saw all that rumour on social media with people tagging me in them,\u201d Mayaki said in a statement to DAILY POST.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I saw another report in the media stating that APC leaders are mounting pressure on me to accept defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn all fairness to the National leadership of my party, they never mounted any pressure on me. So I wonder where their source got information from. The public reposes a lot of trust in the media for authentic information. What happens when this trust is betrayed?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the just concluded governorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has debunked claims that he is under pressure from the APC leaders to accept defeat. Ize-Iyamu, in a statement signed by his Director of Communication and Media, John Mayaki, called on media houses to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":28378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-30312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n