Victor Oshioke, Chief Media aide to Oshiomhole said Obaseki is scared of the looming consequences of his reign of terror.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has alleged that his predecessor Adams Oshiomhole is plotting to have him impeached if the APC gets majority seats in the House of Assembly.
The governor, who lost his ward, council and senatorial district to the Labour Party (LP), accused Oshiomhole of being behind his travail at the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
Obaseki was forced out of the APC ahead of the governorship election in 2020 due to Oshiomhole’s preference for Osagie Ize-Iyamu. Obaseki was eventually re-elected on the PDP platform.
Speaking ahead of the state House of Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, Obaseki, in a statement on Sunday signed by his Special Adviser, Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, said Edo people would rise in his defence and foil Oshiomhole’s plan for impeachment.
The statement reads: “The recent statement by former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on the fate of Governor Godwin Obaseki in Edo State House of Assembly polls exposes his insidious plan to oust the current governor through impeachment.
“We are, however, confident that, like it happened in 2020, when Edo people stood with the governor despite the bullying and intimidation by Oshiomhole and his paymasters, Edo people will again rise in defence of the governor at the polls on Saturday, March 11; vote massively for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and elect a House controlled by the party.
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“It is curious that it is Oshiomhole, who has come forward with the agenda of the APC and not any of the candidates. One wonders if Oshiomhole will be a member of the Edo State House of Assembly after the polls. This points to who and where instructions will be issued from, if the party’s candidates are mistakenly elected into the House.”
He urged Edo people to read the signs and vote en masse for the candidates of the PDP to sustain developmental strides of the Obaseki government.”
However, Victor Oshioke, Chief Media aide to Oshiomhole said Obaseki is scared of the looming consequences of his reign of terror.
He said, “Godwin Obaseki is a corrosive politician whose attitudes are patently leprous in nature. He contaminates and destroys any party, place, or person that he associates with.
“For almost seven years, he has governed Edo State like Herod. Totally insensitive to the aspirations, frustrations, and cries of the people who elected him.
“But on February 25, 2023, Edo people unambiguously rejected him and his PDP faction in the Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives polls. For the first time since the return to democracy in 1999, Edo State PDP failed to win any seat in the national assembly, a direct consequence of Godwin Obaseki’s cantankerous, vicious and reckless use of state power to intimidate, oppress, terrorise and pauperise our people.”