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PETER DAVID writes that the battle for the Edo State Government House has overheated the polity with barely two months to the September 19 governorship poll
Obaseki has, therefore, switched from APC’s broom to PDP’s umbrella, while Ize-Iyamu has dumped the umbrella for the broom. The former APC chairman, who was instrumental to the emergence of Obaseki as governor in 2016, has now shifted his support to his former political rival, Ize-Iyamu.Ize-Iyamu, the APC governorship candidate in the September 19 election, is not a rookie in Edo politics. He is a former Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Edo State Government during the tenure of former governor Lucky Igbinedion.
Meanwhile, the infighting between Obaseki and Oshiomhole became obvious shortly after the House of Assembly elections in 2019 where the ruling APC cleared all the 24 seats. With that kind of victory, any party would go to sleep but the reverse was the case in Edo as the House became enveloped in the crisis of inauguration.
The ex-Edo governor ensured the coast was cleared for Ize-Iyamu after Obaseki was disqualified by the APC screening committee over issues bothering on academic credentials. “I salute all Edo people at home and abroad as well as our friends from other cities but certainly that a better Edo State is possible if we are allowed to lead and not the godfathers to lead. I implore you to keep faith and to inform you of the tasks ahead.”
“For a man who has spent nearly four years in office without something tangible to his name outside fighting both real and perceived enemies, it was only a matter of time before Obaseki was shown the way out and it was also simple logic that he had since shut the door of re-election against himself. “With forceful insistence on procedural and substantive due processes, he has broken the misleading image of a political puppet of a vicious godfather. He has surprisingly shown a striking determination to open a new page of development in the state, making the state the second most sought foreign destination.
“In comparison with many persons angling to displace him, especially Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who seemed more obsessed with the allure of power and its distributive extractive attributes, Obaseki is light years ahead. But his biggest drawback is the lack of, or appearance of sympathetic politics, which is the greatest strength of Ize-Iyamu.”
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