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Our People Will Resist Your Plan To Extend Political Empire In Edo, Obaseki Fires Back At Tinubu

Kennedy IgweBy Kennedy IgweSeptember 16, 2020Updated:September 16, 2020No Comments3 Mins Read
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Governor Godwin Obaseki has hit back at Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over his plea to the people of Edo State to vote out the Governor in the Saturday governorship election in the state.

Responding through Crusoe Osagie, the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, in a statement on Tuesday, said the people of Edo will not yield to Tinubu’s plan to extend his alleged political empire he has long enjoyed in the South West region of the country to the state.

“Our attention has been drawn to a television broadcast in which a former Lagos State Governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in his quest to extend his political dominance and empire to Edo State, decided to take over the role of Edo people to choose through the ballot who to govern them for the next four years,” Osagie said.

“It has become obvious that the spirited fight which Edo people have put up against godfatherism has sent tremors beyond the shores of Edo to the likes of Tinubu, who has for years sustained a stranglehold on Lagos and other states in South Western Nigeria, hence this desperate, last ditch effort to rescue the unproductive political instrument, now popularly referred to as godfatherism, with which he has feathered his nest and built his political empire at the expense of the people.

“Tinubu knows clearly that come September 19, when godfatherism would have been dismantled in Edo State, the people of Lagos may just have found the recipe and formula for removing the chokehold placed on their collective destinies for decades by Tinubu, hence the inciting television broadcast.

“He should take note that Edo people do not yield their will, liberty and power of choice to oppressive figures because they are perceived to have economic and political means. Like one of the great sons of Edo, former Governor and former National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, recently said, our people do not give in to ‘primitive loyalties.’ We always chase noble causes and a little study of our history, should show Tinubu the indomitable spirit of the Edo person.

“Edo stands in the heart of the old Midwestern Region, which was the only region created through plebiscite, which underscores our capacity to determine our destiny as a people. The blood which ran in the veins of the leaders of that time is still the same that runs in the vein of the leaders of Edo State today.”

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