Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, was at his cheapest when he wrote some hours ago that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu should first clear himself of the heavy burden of a so-called N700m election-related fraud case hanging around his neck before dabbling into affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State. Crusoe was quoted as saying that Ize-Iyamu has no grounds to comment on any issue bordering on the APC in Edo State because he is not a member of the party.

According to him, “Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is not a member of the APC in Edo State. He has no grounds whatsoever to comment on the affairs of the party in the state. Ize-Iyamu is not a member of the party at the ward level. He attempted to join the party from Abuja, which is not the right way to go in becoming a member of the party. So, he is not known at the ward level.”

For Crusoe his statement deserves applause but it is one issued out of a deep sense of ignorance and the worst that can be exhibited by a man, who claims to be advising a state Governor about media issues. It goes to shows that the many problems his boss has landed himself ever since are orchestrated by the likes of Crusoe who are not only myopic but pretend they know all whereas they know not even little.

Anyway since Crusoe has chosen to play the Ostrich in a matter that he ought to be aware of he needs enlightenment. And for starters it would interest many to know of even Mr Crusoe is a member of the party as his statement on Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu shows how ignorant he is of the history of the APC, in Edo and Nationally. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is one of the main founders of the APC at state and National levels and for the information of Mr Crusoe, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was there long before his master, the outgoing governor as one of the midwives of the APC; but Crusoe will not know this. He knows very little.

Crusoe would have heard and read how Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu went to his ward and has duly registered as an APC member. At the rally in Benin City, which Crusoe’s masters earlier that day attempted to stop by sealing off the Garrick Memorial Schools venue, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was welcomed into the APC by no less a man that Col David Imuse, the State chairman of the party.

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at that occasion displayed his APC membership card which makes him a full fledged member of the APC, haven registered at his Ugboko ward in Orhionmwon Local government area last year, after he and his supporters resigned en masse from the PDP. As a full fledged party chieftain and a gubernatorial aspirant therefore, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is a stakeholder who is eminently and very qualified to speak on APC issues.

Even if he were not a member of the APC, the Constitutional provision of freedom of expression allows him as a citizen concerned about issues around him, to speak, not to mention now that he can speak to the architects of the rot in the party he was part of bits birth; Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is interested in speaking in the belief that perhaps they could turn a new leaf. This is all the more so because he has a deep passion for Edo state and is interested in moving the state forward.

Mr Crusoe also chose to exhibit his ignorance of court processes in Nigeria by dabbling into a case he obviously knows little about. Since it is in his character to feign ignorance, it would not have been necessary to respond to his gambit on the EFCC case at the Federal High Court Benin City. He certainly is not abreast of the fact that the Court at its last sitting adjourned to rule on March 26 2020 on the competence of the case. For purposes of removing the log in Crusoe’s eyes, he needs to know this much.

As things stand today, Crusoe is only doing his Master’s bidding which can be pardoned. Yet he is an ugly errand boy who is not concerned about facts but relishes fiction and falsehood, else he would have known also that unlike the type of integrity, which his bosses are used to buying and paying heavily for at Edo peoples expense, integrity is not a product people wear as badges everywhere they go… and in Edo today, when the list of persons with integrity is drawn up, Pastor Ize-Iyamu will come out tops. The records speak for themselves.

I voted for this pastor Ize-iyamu during the 2016 governors election of the state under PDP and I knew how I trekked a long distance from my house to my polling almost close to 8kms.

Truth be told, this political prostitute should sit his ass down. Obaseki is working and his achievements is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf.

Me will not only be voting for his re-election but will try to can-verse for him regardless of any party is flying under.

Let’s stop this politics of hypocrisy. Obaseki has even done well political party aside and deserves to complete his tenure nothing the people of Edo states are solidly behind him not all those few political jobbers like Henry Idahagbon, Samson Osagie, use and dumped Pius Odubu, the useless EPM and co that just wanna be eating Edo money without the masses having any visible development dividends.