The media aide to the Edo State Deputy Governor, Musa Ebomhiana, Thursday walked out journalists from a meeting of Catholic Men Organisation (CMO) with his boss, Comrade Philip Shaibu at his Benin City residence.
Musa Ebomhiana told the news hungry journalists who were at the parley that only about four journalists were invited to the occasion and lampooned journalists present for coming to the event and subsequently walked them out in the presence of members of the CMO.
According to Musa, “If my boss comes to see you journalists here, he will be angry with me. If you are not called, please leave, I didn’t call you”.
Attempts by a former secretary of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Titus Akhigbe to admonish Musa on the way he talked to the journalists was deafened by the murmurings of the retreating journalists.
Entreaties made by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Governor, Kingsley Ehigiamusor (Esq), to call the journalists back was ignored as they left the Deputy Governor’s house angrily, saying that Ebomhiana’s action against them is the story.
However, other media houses like the Nigeria Television Authority NTA, Independent Television ITV, Channels Television and African Independent Television AIT were allowed into the Deputy Governor’s house to report the event.
It was reported that at the end of the Deputy Governor’s meeting with the CMO members, Comrade Philip Shaibu apologised to Governor Godwin Obaseki and appealed for forgiveness.
In an interview with journalist after the meeting, Comrade Philip Shaibu appealed to the Governor to forgive him of any wrong doing and allow peace reign between them.
He hopes they can come back together as one like they were and finish well together.
He also assured that he would resume at his new office after the ongoing renovation at the place. Get a premium automobile insurance coverage for your vehicle for as low as #15000 only and claim up to #3,000,000 in damages @Zenith Insurance To signup: WhatsApp/Call: +2349028313757
