Edo APC chieftain remanded in prison for treason, civil disturbance

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Edo APC chieftain remanded in prison for treason, civil disturbance


A major leader of the APC in Egor Local Government Area and Edo State leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Chief Odion Olaye, has been remanded in prison custody in Benin City.

Chief Olaye was remanded Friday by a Benin City magistrate court after he was charged by the police for Treason, Civil disturbances and promoting inter tribal war using a group known as the Benin Solidarity Movement.

Last week two APC leaders in Benin City, Chief Odion Olaye and Mr Curtis Ugbo, led a protest in Benin City, alleging that the Itsekiri were annexing their land in Gelegele, where the state government intends to build an Export Processing Zone. The Itsekiri leaders in Edo state refuted the alegation, claiming that they are “not territorially ambitious”.

The other APC youth leader and former Senior Special Assistant to Adams Oshiomhole, who was attested by the Police, is Mr Curtis Eghosa Ugbo.

The two have been interrogated by the security services after they led others in acts of civil disobedience and disturbances against the Ijaw and Itsekiri people occupying Gele-Gele, a riverine part of Benin Kingdom in Edo State.

In January 2017, a Benin based Lawyer and civil rights activist, Barr Abraham Oviawe  president of Network of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (NOCSON), petitioned the Police against Chief Odion Olaye whom he accused of plot to assassinate him over his intervention to free one Ms Stella Eloghosa Omorogbe whom the APC leader allegedly forced into a sex slave for many years and who, when she opted out, was being penalised by the APC leader with active connivance of the Acting Provost of the girl’s school, College of Agriculture, Iguorhiakhi, Dr. F. O. Obasogie.

Although the remand of Chief Olaye was not directly connected to this, but the Police had been on his trail over several allegations against him, including the PDP allegations that he and others were recruited to recruit fake police officers to rig the September 28 Edo governorship election.

Elder Odion Olaye was a close ally of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

The case against Elder Olaye has been adjourned, pending DPP’s advise for High Court trial.














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