‘Vested interests responsible for Edo APC crisis’
MUSA ODOSHIMOKHE
This made Oshiomhole to work frantically for Obaseki to be acceptable to our people. As a result, they accepted Obaseki instead of any other person. If they look back to that time, then their minds will be settled to take Edo State to the next level. But, because of what had happened, the gap in communication has exacerbated the differences between them.
So, when two elephants are fighting, at the end of the day, one may win but the two may lose what they are fighting for. That is what is happening in the crisis that has engulfed Edo APC.I have always said there is no quarrel between Oshiomhole and Obaseki because I have personally spoken to them. I can say that I am proud that communication link was restored after I spoke to them. But, later, their supporters began to widen the gulf because of vested interests.
For one reason or the other, they stayed in Abuja and have refused to be sworn in. I doubt if they can now say they want to be sworn-in. For more than six months they have not presented themselves to be sworn in. The house is passing laws and governance is taking place without them. That is what happened, for instance, in Kano, when we had Rabiu Kwankwaso as governor and the leader Shekarau, but because Kwankwaso was governor the leadership of the APC in Kano went to Kwankwaso. Shekarau was angry, but it’s unfortunate because that is the structure.
It is not that there is no precedence, what happened in Zamfara State, what happened in Rivers and other places are lessons for us to be careful because human beings only learn from bitter experience.He is the chief executive of the state and it is the chief executive that knows what he wants to do. I know that it is the quarrel between father and son that is extending to this level.
There is freedom of expression which is guaranteed in the constitution and because we are in democracy freedom of expression cannot be curtained. People can ask the President to resign even if things are going on smoothly. Have we taken the pain to analyze them? People say the service chiefs should resign or be sacked. One person is there to appoint and remove certain levels of officers. The President appoints service chiefs and removes them.
Look at the Niger Delta Development Commission , it has become an automated teller machine , people just go there to pack money. But how can the government sit down with criminals? Are we expecting that people should sit down and negotiate with criminals, on kidnapping, banditry and insurgency? Not that peace is not necessary, but in fact, as a matter of priority, the welfare and security is the paramount agenda of the government.
So, policing efforts should be at the national, state, local government and community levels. So, when people say thatis an attempt to policing the Southwest; it is structured to protect the area.
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