DIVIDED HOUSE: APC group sends ‘quit notice’ to Gov Obaseki

Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), an All Progressives Congress (APC) group, has painted the governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki as a failure and asked him to forget being re-elected for a second term in office.

The group stated this in a statement Friday signed by former minority whip of the House of Representatives, Samson Osagie and former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Thomas Okosun.

According to the group, the statement should serve as notice to Obaseki that “some of us are going to present ourselves for next year’s gubernatorial elections and by the time the array of contestants are unveiled, Edo people will not choose deceit over sincerity, rhetoric over substance and a government that has encouraged a capital flight from the state over a government that will make sure the resources of the state circulates among its citizens.”

They also asked the chairman of the APC in Edo State, Mr Anslem Ojezua, to resign his position over alleged failure to find a solution to the crisis rocking the state APC.

“Governor Obaseki exhibited the highest degree of infidelity to Edo people and the All Progressive Congress by abandoning projects he participated in sourcing funds for, and then turned around to blackmail the same government that started those projects.

“He did that because to continue the funding of those projects will not avail him the quick wins of looting Edo funds as quick as he would like, hence he resorted to all manners of intangible projects like Alaghodaro summits 1 and 2, over 25 Seminars, workshops, talk shops, conferences, training using his cronies and allies from other places, over 50 foreign trips for the sole purpose of executing MoUs at great expense to the state without any tangible benefit to Edo people and the party.

“So, Governor Obaseki is only dreaming to think that because he is the custodian of our collective patrimony he will intimidate us and hoodwink Edo people to shy away from giving him a run for our money he is amassing to run for second term.

“For close to three years, Governor Obaseki major achievements are in a few storey buildings in the high court premises and the Secretariat. Schools infrastructures have deteriorated, standard road infrastructures are no longer carried out, erosion rendering inhabitants homeless and rule of law have taken flight. Where then is the good governance?

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“Obviously, this is not the APC brand of government that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole laboured to institute in Edo State. So let it be clear to Governor Obaseki and his coterie of sycophants and carpets baggers that real development will come to Edo State not by rhetoric and deceit, but by genuine and sincere implementation of existing master plans in infrastructural development and painstaking approach to the provision of social services that will guarantee the welfare and security of the people,” the statement read.

On the call for Ojezua’s resignation, the group said, “The crisis that enveloped APC today in Edo State is as a result of the poor or complete lack of leadership quality of Barr Ojezua who instead of pursuing the path of peace in the party choose to side with his paymaster the Governor of Edo State Godwin Obaseki who has chosen to fraternise with members of the opposition party than members of the party that brought him to office”.

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