One of the Edo South senatorial aspirants of the All Progressives Congress and a chieftain of the party, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Thursday denied cloning the front page of Tuesday’s edition of Vanguard Newspaper, which carried a report indicating that he had won the senatorial ticket based on the intervention of the National Working Committee of the party.
He also threatened legal action against one Collins Osaghae, the Special Adviser on Digital Media to Governor Monday Okpebholo, whom he accused of circulating the alleged cloned newspaper alongside statements he described as defamatory.
Speaking to journalists at his residence in Benin City, Ize-Iyamu said those behind the development were attempting to damage his reputation by spreading falsehood.
He said, “These people are desperate, and they want to soil my name and reputation. You imagine the mischief they wanted to do; they even went as far as saying that I want to contest for the 2027 presidential election.
“Even the cloning of the Vanguard Newspaper is to embarrass me. They are the ones who are suffering embarrassment now because of their role in all this.
