Edo 2024: Obaseki Cooking Bad Soup, PDP Chief Says

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and businessman, Martins Osakue, has said that the speculation of Asue Ighodalo as Governor Godwin Obaseki successor is bad soup saying that the next governor of the state must be a homeboy.

In a chat with Vanguard in Benin City, Osakue also said that the issue of zoning that seems to be taking the front seat has never been part of the PDP, adding that the leaders would zero in on a competent person from the aspirants and mobilise for such a person.

Time to end diaspora governors

He said: “We are seeing a kind of ‘diasporan’ politicians coming to govern Edo. This should not continue, that is our point. Even when the governor has interest in who succeeds him, he should not be the sole determinant, and who succeeds the governor is dependent on the person they are bringing.

On the rumour that Governor Obaseki already has a technocrat in mind in the person of Asue Ighodalo as his successor, Osakue who is also the proprietor of one of the thriving private schools in the state said: “I don’t know him. We don’t know him. I have played politics here for more than 40 years since 1978. I was in UPN (Unity Party of Nigeria). I was a founding member of PDP. It is when you know people that you know their pedigree. I look at this man, what has he done for my constituency which is education?

“What has he done for Education? How many people is he training? What free Education programme does he have? What has he done for his community? There are people in Edo Central you can present to us. That is what leadership does.

“They called me. I told them that they were cooking bad soup. I didn’t mince words. That soup is already rotten. That project is dead on arrival.

“Morally, it is even wrong for governors to determine their successors. Why? It blocks a major ingredient of democracy – accountability and transparency. Why are you picking this person?

“Look at the difference with Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, because if he had been going to his place, Iyamho regularly, he could not have allowed the Benin -Auchi road to be in a state of disrepair. That was the advantage we got from a local person,” Osakue said in a direct challenge to Governor Obaseki on the emergence of his successor.

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