Obaseki Vows To Swim Or Sink In Oshiomhole’s APC

By Francis Ogbuagu

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has vowed to swim or sink within the All Progressives Congress, APC saying he would not defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as widely rumoured.

Speaking against the background of the opposition to his second term aspiration from stakeholders from the state, the governor said that he had been tested and would come out better in governance indices in his second term.

The governor spoke in Abuja when he received a delegation of the Obaseki Mandate Group, in the Edo Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, Obaseki pledged:

“I have chosen the party that brought me in the first place, the APC. No matter the challenges, I will run on the platform of my party. And I’m sure by the grace of God, I will overcome.”

His determination for a second term is against the desire of the national chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole whose group has brought out Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to challenge him for the party’s primary.

Obaseki has met Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari towards mobilizing support for his aspiration but has not received much help.

“I’m not saying I won’t have contestants – of course, democracy is about contestations,” he told the group of supporters on Tuesday.

“Tell me what you want to do for the people, and I will tell you what I can do. Tell me what you have done for the people and I will also tell the people what I have done for them, and the people will make a choice, that is what democracy is about; that is what our democracy should be.”

Asserting his qualification for a second term, he said:

“I want to assure you that the last three-and-a-half years have been like a university for us; we have been learning.

“This election will now make us graduates. If you think we have achieved anything in the last three years, by the grace of God, just watch out for the next four years.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The war has become very tough, with COVID-19, the challenges ahead of us are enormous and that is when you are going to separate the men from the boys.

“If you do not have courage, if you do not have energy, particularly intellectual courage and capacity, you may not be able to cope; that is what we are bringing to the table in this election and in the next government.”

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