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The media space is awash with different calls from different quarters, particularly within Edo North Senatorial District of Edo state, Nigeria, with clandestine and deceptive calls on the former President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), former Governor of Edo State for eight(8) consecutive years, and former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC), Comrade Adams Eric Aliyu Oshiomhole, to consider running for the Edo North Senatorial District seat, come 2023.
If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything, and in this time of universal deceit, telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, and we must never be afraid to raise our voices for honesty, truth and compassion against injustice, lying and greed, hence, this suasion on why Oshiomhole should not listen to deceptive voices and praise-singers.
Observers from within and outside Edo state have been wondering why the former Governor and former National Chairman of APC could be nursing such ambition, when he is expected to be aiming higher, particularly at this moment when the country’s political temperature is very high, with agitations for a Southern Presidency. By all standards, Comrade Adams Eric Aliyu Oshiomhole is eminently qualified to join the Presidential race and once again, bring his wealth of experiences to bear in terms of the development of human capital and infrastructure.
Oshiomhole is well known by all and sundry to be a campaign Czar, and the All Progressives Congress ( APC) and its 2023 general elections without Oshiomhole is going to end in a fiasco. It is true that Campaigns are generally run by a campaign Director-General (DG), who coordinates the campaign and assures that efforts are being focused effectively, but Oshiomhole is known to be very ubiquitous, audible, articulate, and oratory, using tangible and verifiable examples to drive home his points, while convincing his audience in a dexterous and very seamless manner, but he may not be able to participate actively in the campaigns if he joins the Senatorial race.
If he decides not to take part in the Presidential race , then he can honourably remain a king- maker in the Nigerian politics, particularly in South-South, where his political feat can eclipse that of Tinubu in Lagos, Edwin Clark, Bisi Akande and others.
Considering and or nursing a Senatorial ambition by a man of Oshiomhole’s standing in the society is nothing but self-belittling, and it is going to be worse in the very likely event that he looses to Senator Alimikhena, who may want to seek qqq1 alternative means, probably in the Peoples’ Democratic Party ( PDP), or through a third force to contest the election and emerge victorious, since he has tangible projects on ground to also campaign with.
A man can be disengaged from the military, either voluntarily or otherwise, but no man can disengage military from any man with a military background. They are very resilient, calm, calculative, strategic, with no fear in their Havier. There are clear indications already that the Edo North chapter of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), stands collapsing in 2023 like the Biblical walls of Jericho, if Oshiomhole goes ahead with his Senatorial ambition.
Those instigating the former National Chairman are enemies of the APC, who want the party to loose the next election in Edo North, to the Peoples’ Democratic Party( PDP), while some of them are routing for Oshiomhole in order to halt the developmental strides of Distinguished Senator Francis Alimikhena.
Oshiomhole has paid his dues in life and destiny, and therefore do not need to belittle himself by going to the Senate to make laws. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was a Senator before he became Governor, and after his eight (8) years as Governor, he made Vice President Yemi Osinbajo the running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, even when he had that opportunity of becoming the Vice President. Tinunbu never had the opportunity of becoming the National Chairman, but Oshiomhole did, and he never returned to the Senate, but allowed his wife.
Tinubu needed no Senatorial seat to remain politically relevant, his political dossier remained evergreen, and today, the political structure he built over the years is now a very formidable leverage for him, as he joins the race to become Nigeria’s President from the Southern extraction.
Arithmetically, the Old Midwestern region, wherein Oshiomhole hails from is ordinarily supposed to produce the next President in view of its being zoned to the South, and the records are very clear in that regard.
Our National Assembly, particularly the Senate, is not a home for the aged as already being christened by Nigerians like we have in developed societies, where there are such facilities in place. ‘A home for the aged’ is a supervised personal care facility at a single address, other than a hotel, adult foster care facility, hospital, nursing home, or county medical care facility that provides room, board, and supervised personal care to unrelated, nontransient, individuals 60 years of age or older.
With all due respect to our dear leader and father, Comrade Adams Eric Aliyu Oshiomhole, who is now Seventy (70) years old, we are using this medium to advise him on the need to shelve his idea of attempting to go to the Nigerian Senate for the herculean business of lawmaking, while he allows the vibrant younger politicians to step in and take our dear Nigeria to its desired Zenith.
OSHIOMHOLE SHOULD NOT BE DECEIVED OR BELITTLED AGAIN