BENIN CITY – THERE was drama on Tuesday at the residence of media cum entertainment guru Don Pedro Obaseki as some people suspected to be among those that assaulted him few months over his alleged scathing comments against the Benin monarchy came apologizing over the incident.
The leader of the group, Osaze Adun popularly called Kapuepue said he was sorry for his action and never will such happen again and they also appreciated Obaseki who they said has been promoting the cause of the Benin nation and never an enemy of the Palace.
Obaseki was assaulted on Sunday, 28th December 2025, at Uwa Primary School, Benin but he said he has forgiven his assaulters.
Obaseki said he was highly traumatized by the incident but having listened to appeal from various quarters, he has no choice than to let it slide.
According to him,”Everybody is aware of the events of the 28th of December and it’s almost four months now. Myself and my children were very pained but there is a proverb in Benin that only the leopard’s cob can lick the leopard’s underside.
“I a’m an Edo man, I am an Obaseki and I wanted to use this as an affirmation that we are not the enemies of the Edo people.
“So that is the only validation I need. The only thing I wanted to say, which I will say maybe in a larger forum, is, I want to thank a few very close friends. I want to thank my family because we didn’t fall from the sky.
“Ironically, the young one behind me, (Kapuepue ) his mother is also from my family.
“The Obaseki clan, we have spoken to my brothers because they’ve been on this for a while. We realised that we need to move forward.
“I was traumatised, I was sick because when you are beating a 60-year-old man on the streets and making him walk almost two and a half, three kilometres, that’s after playing 90 minutes of football. It is the grace of God.
“I am not a polarising figure in this state. I’m the only one who can walk into an APC party and not bother, and enter any PDP party and not bother.
“I am the chieftain of the ADC, I don’t bother. I always sacrifice my party-ness for my Edo-ness. You get my point? So Edo is paramount to me”,