Colonel Tony Nyiam Resigned from his his from office.

 

Edo State Government, yesterday, described the resignation of a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, Colonel Tony Nyiam, as good riddance.

A statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the state government, Prince Kassim Afegbua, noted that “Nyiam’s purported resignation letter was filled with half-truths. We are, however, not surprised by this.

Nyiam, in paragraph seven of the resignation letter said Governor Adams Oshiomhole spoke for 40 minutes, but he contradicted himself in paragraph 10, when he said the governor spoke for an hour. We make bold to say that Oshiomhole spoke for less than 25 minutes during the courtesy visit of the committee to him in his office and he spoke for less than seven minutes at Imaguero College Hall.
“We have video evidence of the whole proceedings to buttress this fact and we challenge Nyiam to bring his recording of same. After all, cameramen and reporters attached to the committee recorded the whole event. At any rate, when has it become a crime for anyone to speak for a particular length of time? We pity Nyiam because he brought this up for want of anything to say.
“Yes, Governor Oshiomhole said he is a Kaduna-made man and sees himself first as a Nigerian because of his pan-Nigeria background rather than as an Afemai man from Edo State. He mentioned this to disabuse the minds of people like Nyiam from the narrow angle of ethnicity rather than seeing themselves first as Nigerians. We now know that it rankles Nyiam’s myopic view for anyone to see himself first as a Nigerian than as a tribal champion. Oshiomhole has no apology to tender for his pan-Nigeria view.