Olumide Akpata, a Labour Party, LP candidate for governor, has denied rumors that Governor Godwin Obaseki is funding him.

 

Akpata, a former NBA president and member of the Nigerian Bar Association, called the report “baseless and unfounded.”

 

Speaking to reporters in the capital of Edo State, Benin, Akpata described as immature those who suggested he was trying to purchase the LP ticket with cash.

 

According to Akpata: “That I am sponsored by Godwin Obaseki is an unfounded and baseless rumour.

“It was bandied around by two irresponsible online blogs that I shall be going after with all the venom that I can muster because my approach to fake news is that you nip it in the bud and you deal with it before it festers.

 

“It has also been bandied around by some disgruntled politicians, including in my party, and I said to them that it is a very weak argument or reasoning.

 

“My relationship with the governor has never been hidden, so it is only politicians who don’t know how to agree to disagree that quickly conclude that when two contenders sit together, they must belong to the same camp.”