Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, says the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole is only disappointed because Governor Godwin Obaseki refused to be used in his quest to become a godfather in the state.
In a statement, the Governor’s aide said the recent comments of the sacked former National Chairman against Governor Godwin Obaseki is an expression of the frustration over his failure to achieve his goal to govern Edo State for a third term using the Governor as a proxy.
According to him, in 2016 when Oshiomhole nominated and supported Obaseki, his hidden motive was to use Governor Obaseki whom he thought would be a pawn in his game to defraud Edo people and enthrone himself as the ultimate godfather of Edo politics at the expense of the will and wishes of Edo people.
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Crusoe Osagie noted that Obaseki’s refusal to mortgage the interest of the majority of Edo people for the satisfaction of the avarice of the former National Chairman of APC and a handful of his followers is the cause of his bitterness which led him to bury himself in pursuit of an innocent Governor who is trying to do the right thing for the people.
Osagie emphasised that If Oshiomhole had made any mistake in supporting Obaseki in 2016, it is to the extent that he thought that the Governor will submit himself as a tool to be used to hold the collective will and best interest of all Edo people hostage and for this Obaseki owes Oshiomhole no apologies because the interest of Edo people is and will always be greater than the interest of one man.
(Editor Paul Akhagbemhe)
