EDO 2020: EDO SHUNS OSHIOMOLE SMEAR CAMPAIGN, RALLIES SUPPORT FOR OBASEKI

It is now very clear that by the end of September 19, Obaseki’s reform agenda will carry the day for the PDP: Edo people have settled for reforms rather than be sold to the merciless smear campaign being mounted by the vicious ex-APC chair Comrade Adams Oshiomole. His calculation was that the electioneering campaign was going to be a battle of wits which would have given him an upper hand by his “magical” command of English.  To his dismay, Edo people are not to be easily sold; they now know that his so-called oratory prowess is nothing but a sham designed to hoodwink them and distract their attention.  Comrade Adams failed the very day he knelt down to tell Edo people that he sold a bad product to them in 2016.  This is a 65 or so years old man —a supposed grandfather—who hardly knows there is a time to quit; what is the purpose of being called a leader when all you have to offer is your myopic and opportunistic agenda? By simple calculation, the Benin people will complete their quota after Obaseki’s next four years; the next eight years belong to the Ishan people. So, by what magic does Oshiomole want to install another Benin man? He had Obaseki before; despite entreaties, he sent him packing because of inordinate ambition. Even one thousand Oshiomole’s and whoever they call “billionaires” cannot change this natural equation—and course.  Assuming Obaseki and Oshiomole were not politicians and they were to attend an interview in a blue-chip company; how would Oshiomole be employed? The same Obaseki that they say forged his certificate is the same man who has worked and created records in all the known blue-chip companies of the world; where has Oshiomole worked before, you may ask? Trade Union secretary in Kaduna or Labour activists in Lagos? The man who is talking loudest is the one who has no certificate save for his “connections”. It says much for our politics that school dropouts are the ones calling the shots. That’s why there is so much struggle for political positions in Nigeria where there shouldn’t be. That’s why upon all the illicit wealth gathered by Oshiomole for himself and his next generation, he still wants more; that’s why he is still in contention; thank God anyway, for this time, his retirement certificate will be handed over to him—not by Obaseki but by nature.  In other climes, they have overcome hunger, money to eat, take care of domestic activities and payment of school fees; here, as a result of Oshiomole’s brutish type of politics people still wallow in abject poverty, hunger, starvation, not to mention being left penniless. An Igbo proverb which says “a bird shot in the head was most likely not to have seen the bullet coming”! No matter how rascally you are, there is a time to quit. This is a bitter lesson for all living beings. We all grow from birth through adulthood stage to death. By extension,

we all overgrow certain things in life. Oshiomole ought not to be involved in this 2020 campaign; he has tried; he should leave the stage for children who are now of age.  There is nothing new in what he is doing except to plunge himself into opprobrium. “When a woman quarrels too much she may one day end up naked in public”. We strenuously pray this will not be Oshiomole’s lot in this coming governorship elections.