By Professor Edoba Omoregie
For: Edo APC Media Council
Bereft of any other fresh campaign lines, Gov. Godwin Godwin Obaseki has through his overwhelmed media aide Mr. Crusoe Osagie, continues to sing the tired lines that his disagreement with Oshiomhole is because he refused to be a godson to a godfather.
Unfortunately, Gov. Obaseki never tells anyone when this realisation dawned on him. Is it when he went all out to support the election of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as Chairman of the APC in the hotly contested National Convention of June 2018 which saw the emergence of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as APC National Chairman, or when Oshiomhole refused to use the office to willy nilly impose Gov. Obaseki on the APC in Edo State as the candidate of the party in the 2020 Governorship Election without a contest?
Obviously, Governor Obaseki is frustrated that against better judgments and commonsense, he had to jump ship to be with strange bedfellows in the PDP after he was exposed as unfit to secure the nomination ticket of the APC once again following the monumental revelations of discrepancies in his academic records.
Gov. Obaseki knows that the ticket of the APC which he so desperately desired would have guaranteed him an unearned return to Edo State Government House, Osadebey Drive come Nov. 12, 2020, but for his personal failures and his unforgivable hubris.
For how can it be that a Governor who claims to have served back in 1980 under the Youth Service Scheme is just now making futile effort to regularize his credentials, including his NYSC Certificate only after being exposed as unfit?
Or how can one reconcile the strangeness in the fact that a Governor cannot still tell us when he graduated from the school he claimed to have attended? One day, he says he graduated in 1976, another in 1979, and today he totally fails to tell us which date!
Or how can one possibly not question the integrity of a Governor who submits a degree certificate to INEC that’s undated and is fundamentally different the one he previously submitted in 2016 in violation of the electoral laws of the land?
All of these troubles are sufficient to weigh on the minds of Governor Obaseki enough for him to resort to desperate language, knowing that the consequence for his irreconcilable records is a resounding defeat come 19 September 2020.
Even more, Gov. Obaseki already knows that his “Obubuyaya” or the mirage which has defined his MOU government in the last 4 years, underscored by his failure to complete any major road project in the Benin metropolis and beyond, or deal with the perennial flood problem in the entire Benin City and environs, or to guarantee health services for the vast majority of Edo people among other evidence of insensitive governance will guarantee his resounding defeat on 19 September, 2020 hence his resort to violent language against Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and other distinguished Edo sons and personalities including one of our foremost Edo pride, Captain Hosa Okunbor.
Finally, we advice Gov. Obaseki to stop campaigning, and to instead focus on writing his handing over notes to Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu the incoming Governor of Edo State, because never again will Edo people elevate a man like Godwin Obaseki with all his unremediable flaws to the exalted office of Governor of Edo State!
