Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says he will never fall for the tricks of the immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the party’s candidate in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
The governor said this on Tuesday in reaction to their congratulatory messages following his victory last week at the Supreme Court.
In a congratulatory letter he issued, Oshiomhole said he had put all that transpired between him and his estranged political godson behind him, describing their differences as “unfortunate”.
On his part, Ize-Iyamu in a letter to the governor said he is happy that “all these cases have come to an end”.
But Obaseki, addressing a large crowd of supporters at the Ring Road in Benin, wondered why they simply sent the messages to him through the internet.
He noted that if the opposition leaders were really serious about their congratulatory messages, they should have printed them on their letter-headed papers, with their signatures on them, rather than posting it on the internet..
According to him, “Edo will never fall for such cheap messages called congratulatory letter, they are not serious. Na today we do election, na today we win? They are full of tricks.
“The APC in Abuja is being run just like what they did in Edo when they were in power in Edo state. There is problem in Nigeria. The country has money but until we change our mindset that tax payers money must be used to work for the people and not for very few, we have to pray that what happened in Edo will not happen in Abuja.
“The only party that has the right people for the job is the People’s Democratic Party, come 2023. Forward ever, backward never, Edo must move forward,” he said.
