A former senator representing the Edo South Senatorial District, Matthew Urohghide, tells TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN about his defection
If there was cooperation in the party, maybe Peter Obi would not have left the PDP. Obi was still a bona fide member of the party when the convention was ongoing; it was after that convention that he left. Something must have prompted him to leave the party and I must tell you that one thing that prompted Obi to leave the party was that the governors were insisting that one of them must be the vice-presidential candidate.
There are rumours that you are defecting to the Labour Party so as to get a ticket to run for governorship, how true is that? What is wrong with that? My ambition is mine. When it is time, you will hear about it. I can aspire to be anything and I can go anywhere. I don’t think there is any exalted position that I am not qualified to contest. It is only left for the people to decide. The ultimate deciders of my fate in politics will be the people; the electorate, not any other human being. Of the three choices I have, I have deleted one permanently.
Some people have said that you are not on good terms with your senior legislative aide, Neda Imasuen, because he now represents your senatorial district. Some others say you sponsored him to the Senate. What exactly is the relationship between both of you? Barrister Neda Imasuen, the senator representing Edo South Senatorial District, is very much with me and there is nothing that can change that. He has been with me for long even before I became a senator. We have lived together in my house, so politics didn’t really bring us together nor will it separate us. He has worked with me for a very long time and he is very experienced in the job. If people want to be fair, there is no one more qualified than him in the 10th Senate.
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