My grouse with Obaseki, by Oshiomhole
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Adams Oshiomhole, has opened up for the first time on the controversies surrounding the supposed crisis between him and Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki.
Oshiomhole, who said he has no personal quarrel with Obaseki, maintained inaugurating the House at 9:30pm with nine members was a rape on the nation’s democracy. “The only option for him is to lobby and if he lobbies and in end he is unable to get everybody to toe his line, he has to concede that these are not his Commissioners or Special Assistants for which he has absolute monopoly to appoint.
“But inspite of all the efforts we invested at the Federal level, incidentally as the chairman I was active on that, we conceded in the end when Senator Ndume said he will not go the way the party wanted.“So that is the way to go. It was not within the power of the President and Commander in Chief to use his state instrument to prevent Ndume from contesting because it is his right so to do.
“Sometimes we succeeded, some other times we did not. But the bottom line is that it is the responsibility and absolute prerogative of members of the House to do it.” “Can he possibly lay claim to loving the governor more than those of us who went round the state and stake our reputation and invest our energy and persuasive skill to market the governor to the people.
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