Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu Reporting
Edo State, Nigeria
In a resounding retort to Mr. John Mayaki, Director of Media and Publicity for Senator Monday Campaign Organisation, The Team Asue Media Organization (TAMO) has vehemently rebuked attempts to embroil Dr. Asue Ighodalo, the Edo State PDP’s gubernatorial candidate, in the ongoing legal dispute concerning the revered Oba of Benin, His Royal Highness Oba Ewuare II, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo.
In a press statement released on Wednesday and obtained by Truth Live News, TAMO clarified that the lawsuit against the esteemed Oba of Benin is an internal matter solely involving the monarch and certain members of his subjects. The organization emphasized that neither Dr. Asue Ighodalo nor any other external party has any involvement in the legal proceedings.
The media organization expressed grave concern over what they perceive as a blatant attempt by Mr. Mayaki to politicize and exploit the revered institution of the Oba of Benin for personal or political gain.
The full statement reads;
“The Team Asue Media Organization, TAMO, read with condescending amusement a statement credited to one Mr John Mayaki, the Director of Media and Publicity, Senator Monday Campaign Organisation, where he attempted with futility, to drag Dr Asue Ighodalo into the case instituted by some Dukes(Enogies) against the revered Oba of Benin.
“First, we wonder how the known sadistic narcissist, John Mayaki, got the position of Director of Media to the Senator Monday Okpebholor Campaign Organisation. This goes to show the quality of persons that are diluting the already diluted candidacy of Monday Okpebholo – Birds of the same feathers flock together.
“It is on record that since John Mayaki lost his job as a media aide to Governor Godwin Obaseki some years ago, his sanity can be qualified as a disorder – perhaps Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, or any of its variants. Mayaki has never been able to recover from the impact of his sack – today, he has become a vagabond journalist who is readily available for dirty brown envelope contradictions.
“It is unnecessary to argue with the wandering and loafing journalist who’s lack of reputation within the social media circle is well known in Edo State. His duty, when hired, is to concort imaginative lies and propaganda – something the Edo State people are very aware of.
“The suit against the revered Oba of Benin is a case between the King and some of his subject, and they alone were the complainants. How the so called intinerant Mayaki is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to drag Dr Ighodalo into the fray calls for concern by all well-meaning Edo citizens. He most be told to stop playing politics with the revered Oba – enough is enough of this sacrilege.
“The question before every lip in Edo State is whether Mayaki should not quickly subject himself to psycho-analysis since he is finding it difficult to get out from the Stages of Grief as ocassioned by his sack many years ago. Others who lost their jobs to more competent persons have since moved on. Why is Mayaki still lurking in own dark past that is now tainting his mentality?
“For the unitiated, Dr Asue Ighodalo has a very warm King/subject relationship with the revered Oba of Benin, as against the unremitting imaginative lies being peddled by Mayaki and his APC urchins and cretins. In fact, when elected, Ighodalo has promised to accord the Oba, as usual, his incontestable position as the Oba of one of the few existing empires in the world.
“We admonish Mayaki and the APC to be issue-based in their campaigns rather than dependant on these highfalutin propaganda meant to veil the gross incompetence of their unfortunate disaster of a candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo. The Edo citizens want solutions to the hardship created by APC in Nigeria, which Ighodalo promise to provide, not lies and propaganda”.