Security: Resign from your office as Gov, APC tells Obaseki

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By Aiyeku Timothy

The Edo State All Progressive Congress, (APC) has asked Governor Godwin Obaseki to resign from office over security challenges in the state.

In a statement by the Edo State caretaker chairman of the APC, Col David Imuse Rtd, he claimed Obaseki had run out of ideas on how to govern the state.

Imuse stressed that the Governor is failing in his duty of protecting the lives of Edo people, and has shown gross disregard for the rule of law.

He added that Obaseki’s personal interest is clashing with his official interest.

“He has failed in duty to uphold his oath of office to protect the lives and properties of Edo citizens, his penchant for disobeying court orders and his decision to plunge Edo state into more indebtedness with his recent clandestine borrowing of N25 billion from the capital market as the reasons for his call.

“No one is safe in Edo. The state is under siege. We have a governor who has lost focus. Fear and insecurity have become the order of the day, yet the Governor takes N700 million monthly as security vote. And so far he has not been able to deploy this huge amount to mobilise the security agencies in the state to fight criminality”

Reacting to the recent ruling by Benin high court, Col Imuse noted that the governor does not have an iota of respect for the judicial and legislative arms of government or the rule of law but regularly runs to the courts on the most frivolous of excuses.

A court recently ruled that the duly elected chairman of Etsako East Local Government Council who was illegally removed from office should go back to his seat. But the Governor, in disobedience of the Court, mobilised thugs to seal up the entrance of the Council Secretariat at Agenebode, denying the Chairman’s access.

“Because Edo is designed to be governed by relevant laws,” Col Imuse said, “Edo APC is ready to take the bull by the horns, as it can no longer condone a governor who has no regard for the rule of law.”

The call for Obaseki’s resignation is coming few hours after Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa was kidnapped along Oza Road, in Orhiomwon Local Government Area of the state.

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