Senator Roland Owie has said the fate of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections in Edo South Senatorial District  is in the hands of God and the  voters and not in the hands of some cultural leaders even as he insisted that nobody in Benin Kingdom has the authority to direct the Binis who to vote and who not to vote for. He assured that Jonathan would be re-elected.

“During the campaigns for Governor Oshiomole, some of these cultural leaders in Edo South openly told us that Senator Osunbor was their candidate and that Oshiomhole wont win because, according to them, their `witches’ had told them that Osunbor will be governor. At each point, my reply was ‘at the mention of the name of Jesus Christ, every knee must bow’.

However at the reception for the success of Oshiomole in the Government House, some of these people who had rubbished the Benin cultural values were in the front row that day. What a shame!”, Owie said in a statement yesterday.

“By the grace of God and the support of the Benin masses who do the voting while the same cultural leaders children take the first appointments in government they never worked for,. Jonathan will win.  I advise them to behave so that we don’t expose their perfidy against the Binis they pretend to talk for. The Binis, even though within a monarchy, are republican by nature! Nobody can fool them any more”.