By Ighomuaye Lucky. O
Former Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation under Lucky Igbinedion administration, Hon. Charles Idahosa is dead.
He died at the age of 72.
Idahosa passed on today, Saturday 20th December, 2025 in Benin after a brief illness.
He served as former Political Adviser to Adams Oshiomhole, when he was the governor of Edo State.
Idahosa, is known by many either as Charly Tempo or “Akakasiaka”,.
Newstracktoday reports that by 1999 when Chief Lucky Igbinedion was elected governor of Edo State, Idahosa was made the Director of Public Affairs and Protocol, Government House.
He became Commissioner for Information and Orientation from where he was sent to Abuja as a member of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, and from the Board of NTA he came to contest election for the Senate to represent Edo South Senatorial District with Daisy Danjuma where according to him, the leaders decided that it was Daisy Danjuma because there was no primaries.
“After that I decided to join other Nigerians to form a new political party which is today the APC. We started as ACD, then AC and then I contested the governorship election with Oshiomhole and the rest of them in 2007.
“Oshiomhole eventually emerged and I became his Political Adviser for the eight years he was governor of the state and today, I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.”
