erstwhile protégé, Governor Godwin Obaseki, are still engaged in a battle of supremacy. As the two principal actors in the September 19 governorship election in Edo State, they are fighting to save their political careers. Whichever way it goes, one of the gladiators will go down. This explains why both sides are fighting to gain the upper hand.
The utterances of Oshiomhole who governed the state for two terms, between 2008 and 2016, can be understood against the background of the events in the last four years. He almost single-handedly engineered the emergence of Obaseki as a governor to succeed him when he left office in 2016. At the time, Obaseki did not stand any chance picking the ticket in an open contest because he was widely considered as an “outsider” in the party and in Edo politics.
“So, I want to correct my mistakes by making sure that a servant of God, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is elected as governor and kick the snake out of Government House. From now till September 19, I am here in Edo State because a political lion I am, I am not scared of anything.” His words: “The governor is demolishing the houses of our members, while others are being jailed on trumped-up charges. These are the people who fought for him to become governor.”
He added: “How can someone who did not buy nomination form, who came in when the sale of forms had closed, screening had closed, congresses for the election of delegates had closed, and all of a sudden, because he has state resources to spend, rules were bent to accommodate him and made to become the candidate? Only yesterday Edo PDP scored Obaseki F9 in its sectoral analyses, and today, the same man who scored F9 all through in terms of performance, has suddenly become the head of the PDP...
Obaseki also suffered another setback with the resignation of Patrick Iyoha, the director-general of his campaign organization. Iyoha was also a member of the Edo Waste Management Board. Many members of Obaseki’s cabinet have been resigning since the governor defected to the PDP. Prior to Iyoha’s resignation, three commissioners of the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Area Development Commission had also resigned their appointments. They are Osamwonyi Atu, Emmanuel Odigie and Rilwanu Oshiomhole.
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