Nigeria, Feb. 12 -- The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has alleged that the recent trend of bomb detonation in the state is the third layer of Adams Oshiomhole's plan to discredit him.

In a phone interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the governor's spokesperson, Crusoe Osagie, said the explosion that rocked the residence of the factional secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Lawrence Okah, in the state, has nothing to do with the governor.

"The third move is now setting up bombs, blowing up places, and shooting empty buildings and so on.

"Their intent is to create an irretrievable breakdown of law and order in Edo State which is to necessitate declaring a state of emergency and seizing (of) government from Obaseki," Mr Osagie told...