Outgoing Governor of Edo
State, Adams Oshiomhole,
says his mission has been
accomplished with the victory
of his party, the All
Progressives Congress,
APC, in last week’s
governorship election in the
state.
Recall that the Independent
National Electoral
Commission, INEC, had on
Thursday declared the APC
governorship candidate,
Godwin Obaseki as the
winner
of the keenly-contested
governorship election in the
state.
Featuring on a Channels
Television Programme,
Sunday Politics, the
incumbent governor said his
life is synonymous with
fighting battles, adding that
the September 28
governorship election was
his last battle.
According to Oshiomhole, “My
mission has been
accomplished. This is my
very last battle.
“Struggle has been my life
from the factory yard to
branch union leader to
general secretary of textile
workers union, to the Nigeria
Labour Congress, and then
becoming the unofficial
opposition to the government
of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo.
“While we were struggling
for freedom in Abuja, our
state had been conquered by
two ruthless godfather, but
we had to come home to free
our people.”
Admitting that there was
electoral fraud in the
election, Oshiomhole
however, accused the INEC
of conniving with the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, to rob
the ruling APC of votes.
Oshiomhole described PDP as
the “proverbial armed
robber” for claiming that the
election was rigged.
“The PDP is behaving like
the proverbial armed robber;
the proverbial armed robber
that is so skilled that when it
is told that it has committed a
crime, the armed robber will
be the first to run to a police
station.
“It is a known fact that if
anyone has profited
shamelessly from the fraud
in any election, including this
one, it is PDP.
“Some of the numbers that
INEC counted in favour of
the PDP were fraudulent,”
Oshiomhole said.

“It is a known fact that if anyone has profited shamelessly from the fraud in any election, including this one, it is PDP.

“Some of the numbers that INEC counted in favour of the PDP were fraudulent," Oshiomhole said.