The forthcoming off-season election in Edo State is drawing close and as usual the political space is inundated with lots of drama and razzmatazz, especially from some social media hiring.
The writers of these sensational stories that lack concrete evidence are using the internet to feed the public with false and fictitious information apparently to curry favour from their paymasters.
These social media goons are however ignorant that facts are sacred and no matter the long sermon of lies they spread to the public, the truth will always prevail.
Instead of concentrating on the task of convincing the voters that their candidate is intellectually capable to steer the state, they have chosen to write fiction to destroy the hard earned reputation of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo.
One of such stories posted by Hon. Ugbo Desmond is alleging and linking Asue Ighodalo to the “Planwell” investment ponzi scheme in Edo State, with a piece titled ‘ Unveiling Shadows: Asue Ighodalo and the looming Threat of the Plan well scandal on the social media
There is no doubt that this has become a subject of debate on the streets of Benin City, but the well discerning and good people of Edo state are wise enough and have concluded that this is only a cheap black mail that cannot be substantiated.
When he emerged the PDP governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo in all fairness has always maintained and advised on the need to focus on issue based campaigns and not using the social media and the mass media to embark on campaign of calumny.
The days of deploying Cheap black mail are over, because the achievements and curriculum vitae of everybody are in the public domain and for a man like Dr. Asue Ighodalo whose track records are every where, it will no doubt be difficult for the social media urchins to achieve anything meaningful with this kind of blackmail.
For their information, the residents of Edo State know better than they think, Asue Ighodalo has no connection with the “PlanWell “Scheme at no time and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is not investigating him as being peddled in that report.
It would be recalled that on a daily basis, since Asue Ighodalo clinched the PDP ticket, his political profile has continued to rise following his consultations and interactions with the people of the state and he is not distracted because his focus is Osadebey Avenue where he has a social contract to use his wealth of experience and enormous connections to make Edo Great Again and the investment destination of the nation.