The Pastor Osagie-Iyamu (POI) Media Campaign Team has challenged Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Edo State Governor, to prove that he was not running the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaigns with public money.

The POI Media Campaign Team threw the challenge to the governor through a statement made available to the press on Sunday.

The team faulted what it tagged the new slogan of the new godfather “who at every opportunity tells people that Pastor Ize-Iyamu is a treasury looter. Even now, Oshiomhole’s ‘boy Friday’ Obaseki has caught the bug.

“What is very worrisome is the fact that Oshiomhole, who has been governor for about eight years, suddenly now feigns ignorance of how government is run.

“In his administration, is he not the sole signatory to the treasury? Oshiomhole spends from the treasury in a way and manner that smacks of greed and corruption,” the group alleged.

Furthermore, the POI Media Campaign Team cautioned Comrade Oshiomhole that being a Chief of Staff or Secretary to State Government does not grant an automatic access to the treasury.

The team challenged Governor Oshiomhole to “as a matter of integrity like other state governors publish the true financial position of Edo.

“Edo State is indebted to the tune of over N300 billion due to over invoicing, inflation of contracts and brazing looting,” the team alleged.

The team also accused Comrade Oshiomhole of marginalising the Esan people of the central senatorial district of the state.