Oshiomhole Drinking With The "Go And Die" Widow

Barely a few days after apologizing to the widow (identified as Mrs. Joy Ifije) he told to 'go and die', the Edo state Gov Adams Oshiomhole has employed her and also given her a N2million grant to get a shop and trade. The governor met with Mrs Ifije at the Government House yesterday and offered her the job which is to join the State’s War Against Indiscipline in the campaign against street trading and to keep the state clean. Continue to read excerpts of his conversation after the break

"When you put your things on the road a vehicle can run into you and they have killed some people like that and that was why I said if you are a widow do you want more people to be widowed? But when I said go and die, that one was said in a fit of anger. And I am really sorry”, Oshiomhole said.

“I want you to join us. We would employ you and pay you salary. You would help us to campaign to other women not to trade on road sides. We should not use poverty as a yardstick" The Governor then gave the woman a cash gift of N2 million