Politics of obvious and apparent personal vendetta among some youths in Edo State which has been on-going for years most especially since the immediate former Governor of the State, Godwin Obaseki left office on November 12, 2024 took a new twist on Sunday night in the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom, as a yet to be properly identified man walked into an event hall where the former Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his wife, Betty were scheduled to meet Edo people, and attacked-one of their main political and media supporters, Albert Obaze, who probably had been in the bad books of some Edo youths sequel to his ways of always defending the ex governor Obaseki and exchanging words with those against the ex governor.

Videos made available online indicated that Albert Obaze was attacked while he was live streaming the event on Facebook and other social media platforms as guests were coming in and waiting for the arrival of the former Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his wife, Betty.

Initially, the suspected attacker walked up to the victim, and asked to have a conversation with him, saying; “I am the Double Chief you are looking for, come let’s talk” but Albert Obaze refused and replied to the attacker that; “You are the one looking for me; wetin happen” as Albert Obaze continued to demand to know why the attacker had decided to see him, immediately, the attacker hit the victim on the face.

Manchester city police were seen alongside their vehicles shortly after the attack, but, the City Police Department is yet to issue a statement as at the time of filing in this report.

Albert Obaze in a Facebook live streaming on Monday early morning night at a Hospital in Manchester, said that, he’s currently having difficulty with hearing in one of his ears hit by the attacker.

On November 5, 2025, while on live Facebook video streaming, Albert Obaze had raised alarms of act of possible threat to his life by a man simply identified as Double Chief of Manchester who he said had threatened to beat him repeatedly if he visited Manchester to attend and organize the Obaseki thank you visit to his supporters.

Also during the live video, Albert Obaze narrated how he was almost attacked by some Edo youths in Italy, thus, described some Edo youths abroad as people who always act like animals.

Before now, Albert Obaze may have faced a lot of threats of possible attacks issued by some Edo youths who also see him as an enemy of the Benin Monarch following the controversies surrounding the establishment of Museum of the West African Art, MoWAA in Edo State which some youths protested and prevented the commissioning of the multi billion naira cultural hub last two Sunday, an act which led to Foreign guests being escorted to safety by the Nigeria Police Force team personally led by the Edo State police commissioner.

The continued verbal attacks and insults on Albert Obaze and his family especially his biological parents in reactions to the political aide’s statements over the controversies surrounding the MoWAA establishment, made his younger brother, Smart Obaze to issue a video statement in recent days and insulted his younger brother’s principal, ex-Governor Godwin Obaseki for allegedly endangering his brother life and bringing all manners of insults to their family even when his elder brother, Albert Obaze was never given any political position during his eight years as governor of Edo State.

Smart Obaze asked why must it always be his brother, Albert Obaze defending and receiving insults because of Obaseki, why are the Obaseki’s family not coming out to defend the ex-governor.

Ex-Governor Godwin Obaseki became an issue of concerns for some youths in Edo State after some of the youths in the state tagged the Ex-governor as betrayal, saying, they were the ones that helped Obaseki to power, but, after taking over as Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki abandoned them and allegedly brushed them aside in the scheme of things especially in the area of tax collections from traders and commercial drivers.

During the time of Godwin Obaseki, the governor put a stop to manual collection of taxes from traders and commercial drivers, and made the method of tax collections electronically, as such, some youths who violated the governor’s directives, were arrested and detained for days. Some of the arrested and detained youths were members of the governor’s former political party who believed they were the ones that helped Obaseki to power during his first tenure as governor of the state in the South-South geopolitical zone in Nigeria.