The State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Col David Imuse RTD has debunked all the rumours flying around about the political aspirations of the former National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Addressing former members of the party who defected to the APC at the weekend in Ekpoma, he said, “For Edo people who know Comrade Oshiomhole very well, they know that he is not a man who hides his intentions or feelings. In his characteristic ebullient self, he will say what needs to be said when he decides and pick the time to do so. I have not heard from the Comrade on this issue and so I think it is all a rumor. All those groups claiming to be representing him are not the spokesperson of Comrade Oshiomhole. The statements from the groups are not from the party at any level. If Oshiomhole is interested, he will let us know”.
Col Imuse who identified the majority of those who returned to the party as persons who erroneously left the house they built, said they have returned home as the broom which naturally sweeps away dirt is what Edo people are looking up to now, to sweep away bad governance .
“It is clear that the PDP is in disarray… It is a self-inflicted injury..we told the whole world that Obaseki and his co-travellers are pollutants and irritants. And wherever they go, they represent failure, destruction and ingratitude. Edo APC is very well organised. We are fully settled, our structures are in place from the state, wards and to the units. We are prepared and ready to take back the governance of the state”.
On Edo APC plans for the 2023 election in the light of the House of Assembly crisis, Col Imuse said, “Our people came out supporting the APC and we won all the seats but unfortunately they have been denied representation so no one is happy. So in the 2023 general election Edo people will tell Obaseki and those he is supporting that they are not needed. The handwriting is clear, come 2023, APC will emerge victorious.
The APC chairman also condemned the PDP National Chairman’s recent visit to the State describing it as a most embarrassing comedy with Governor Godwin Obaseki as the chief jester along with his co-travellers.
He said, “The Governor belittled the office and insulted the national Chairman of a party by bringing him to come and Commission a jetty for canoes and motor park while his mates are commissioning better development projects. This type of commissioning is for ward councillors. It shows that the Governor is a complete jester who has run out of ideas completely”.
Describing the PDP administration in the state as one that has subjected the people of Edo to untold hardship through bad governance which has made the people tired and sick of its deceit and propaganda, he called on all right-thinking persons in Edo State who went to the PDP to return back home to the APC as the PDP is a party of treachery.
The Edo APC chairman said “Edo People are tired and want a change by all means. All that you see on the ground in the state presently were done by the Oshiomhole administration. Obaseki’s MoU government has nothing to show”, adding that the government is gasping for breath as it has lost steam”.
Signed
Victor Ofure Osehobo
ASPS
APC, Edo State