'It would appear to me that Obaseki (GovernorObaseki) is unduly fixated on Oshiomhole and he apparently still desires that his predecessor as governor be removed from office as National Chairman.' OfficialAPCNg
For several weeks since the gory visitation of the dreaded Coronavirus to the shores of Nigeria, it was all silent on the Edo State sector of the ever turbulent and tempestuous battlefield of the country’s political terrain.
Before Oshiomhole’s adversaries could regroup to launch a fresh salvo, the Coronavirus struck paralyzing activities across the country not excluding the political terrain. The restriction on movement imposed across the country in response to the pandemic forced many previously ever gallivanting governors to stay in their states and face the often abandoned task of governance in their jurisdictions.
But not anymore it appears- reluctant thanks to almighty Coronavirus. If this pandemic will have a sobering, humbling effect on Nigeria’s men and women of power thus fundamentally changing their attitudes to the contestation for and utilization of public office, it would be an unintended fallout of an otherwise tragic situation.
This is how and why ‘politics underdevelops Nigeria’ to borrow the evocative phraseology of the late Claude Ake.
The sad thing is that rather than unite to fight a common enemy that poses a grave danger to lives and livelihoods across partisan, religious, class and ethno-cultural lines, the political class remains bitterly divided in Edo State as the battle for the September governorship election has resumed in earnest Coronavirus be damned.
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