Gov. Oshiomhole Apologizes For Harsh Public Dismissal Of Helpless Benin City Widow

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has apologized for his abominable dismissal of a helpless widow on a Benin street during a “project tour.”
A fast-circulating online video shows the governor, who was leading a large team of officials, telling the crying woman, who was on her knees begging him, to “go and die.”
The incident was videotaped and uploaded to the Internet and widely-circulated to social media activists, including Saharareporters.  By early today, the video had already garnered over 100,000 views and 360 comments on SaharaReporters fanpage alone. 
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor apologized to a delegation of Muslim women of the  Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN), which visited his office yesterday, and explained that he made his comment in anger and now regrets it.  It is unclear if the governor has apologized to the woman herself.
Several commentators on SaharaReporters were seething with anger in condemning the action of the governor.
Several other groups set up an online campaign to raise money for the poor woman to enable her set up a business in Benin City.  Even the opposing Peoples Democratic Party (Edo State chapter), cashed in on the campaign by donating N250,000 to the widow.