It is no longer news that Governor Godwin Obaseki who walks on a wobbling rob of governance in Edo State due to his puerile knowledge of the tenets of democratic tendencies and practices has crept into the vineyard of treasonable vituperation by sinisterly and surreptitiously blowing the ember of divisiveness of the Nigerian Nation come 2023.
The Governor has further exposed the reasons why he has no regard for governance and has foist on Edo people a beehive of lawlessness and dictatorship even though he assumed and attained leadership vide a democratic contestation.
Governor Godwin Obaseki’s claim that Nigeria will break if the APC Presidential candidate, Senator Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, wins the presidential election come 2023 is the most unguided and intellectually bereft statement to have come from any person sitting in the corridor of governance in a democratic nation like ours (Nigeria).
Little did people conclude that Governor Godwin Obaseki lacks the intellectual sagacity and educational behest to enthrone a democratic atmosphere and benevolence in Edo State.
What temerity and audacity does Governor Godwin Obaseki possesses to speak of a man who transformed and gave Lagos a road map to economic and political prosperity in the comity of states despite the proclivity and inclinations of the Olusegun Obasanjo led PDP Federal Government.
The statement by Governor Godwin Obaseki invoked a dire need for a political and legal examinations of all the none democratic policies that he has bestowed on Edo people from the ceaseless and unending borrowing without any corresponding effect on the economy of Edo State to the monumental destructions of the know legacies of Edo State like the modern library, central hospital, sales of pediatric ward of the central hospital, to the conduct pipe of Edo Best and his primordial sentiments of destruction of private properties and illegal occupation of privately own land without regards to rule of law.
The short sightedness and shallow memories of Governor Godwin Obaseki were further exposed by his Statement, when he venture into history to uncover the fact that in less than three (3) years the same Governor Godwin Obaseki rigorously and without any limit, campaigned for the APC at both the State and federal levels, eulogizing the effect of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos political template.
One must wonder why Governor Godwin Obaseki has summersaulted into political misfit and barreness by preaching divisiveness and treasonable attribute whose consequences are perilous to a sovereign nation like Nigeria.
There is no gainsaying the fact that it will take a mileage for a man who claimed to have read Classics to appreciate the economic variables that determine the strength of any country’s currency in the competitive global market.
Let Governor Godwin Obaseki be told that the bargaining strength of the nation in the global market is not only measured with the printing of the currency as he claimed, but a combination of other basic economic factors prevailing globally. Little wonder we hear giant nations complained of worst economies crisis through their incoming prime minster who have promised to stabilized the troubled ship of the British economy.
The admissions by great nations that there is global economic recession mean that Nigeria’s present economic realities are not peculiar and just like the world leaders are assuring particularly those that are aspiring to hold positions of authority, like the incoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, so also our great Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu is exuding the unparalleled confidence that when elected as president, he shall steer the ship to the theatre of economic sufficiency and progress.
If we situate the legacies of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos State albeit Nigeria with the moribund statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki, it will unveil the hollow knowledge of the Governor of a democratic hallmark in a multi-party democracy where many parties engaged in contestation under a peaceful and enduring atmosphere devoid of rancor and frivolities.
The statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki has helped to demarket the PDP in Edo State in the minds of Edo citizens who are better enlightened and have unending regard for a united and an indivisible Nigeria because his statement is devoid of the issue based campaign being promoted by the Nigerian people.
We, the APC, therefore as a party, call on the Federal Government to keep his security apparatus in place and beam the nation security search light and intelligence gathering on Governor Godwin Obaseki and the party he represents, the PDP, as there is the great tendency for him and his co-travellers to cause havoc before, during and after the elections.
We call on the Edo people and Nigerians at large, to treat the unguided statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki as politically inconsequential and intellectually frailty and exercise their franchise for the great Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC in the Presidential election.
Signed
Prince Peter Uwadiae-Igbinigie
State Publicity Secretary,
All Progressives Congress(APC), Edo State.
