Adams Oshiomhole is on a roll. He’s revelling wantonly in his unrestrained power to do as he pleases.

The ex-comrade and former governor has achieved his aim. He’s now the sovereign of APC and self-anointed godfather of Edo State politics.

He believes that, as national chairman, he’s beyond the constraints of his party’s constitution and the rules and regulations governing all aspects of the party’s administration and activities. The party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, supposedly a superior organ to the National Working Committee, NWC, which he heads, is just a decoration. That’s why he routinely ignores it, and usurps its power and functions to advance his personal interests.

Like most politicians, Oshiomhole is unprincipled. Whatever serves his interests at the moment is welcome, so long as it enables him to achieve his goal. Let’s give it to him: he’s a brilliant purveyor of puffery, semantic trickery and verbal overkill. A skill he employs to mask his ruthless streak and relentless advertisement for himself.

His promotion of Osagie Ize-Iyamu to replace Governor Godwin Obaseki is vintage Oshiomhole. It serves his immediate and urgent need to get rid of the governor, whom he had thought he could walk all over without any serious pushback.

Ize-Iyamu is the same person he vilified so cruelly and unfairly in 2016. Then Ize-Iyamu was the PDP’s candidate running against his own man, Obaseki.

Both of them have had a fraught relationship since Oshiomhole was first elected governor. Ize-Iyamu had always wanted to be governor too and believed he had done enough and showed unblemished loyalty to Oshiomhole to be anointed as his successor.

He was involved in the efforts to get Oshiomhole elected governor in 2007. And he ran the campaign for his re-election in 2012. After the emergence of APC, Ize-Iyamu was elected the party’s deputy national chairman, south. The bromance between them was thriving then.

But it soured soon after Oshiomhole began his second term as governor. He had begun to take certain steps that signaled that he wasn’t keen on Ize-Iyamu succeeding him. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, Ize-Iyamu decamped to PDP and subsequently picked the party’s ticket.

Oshiomhole had said that he didn’t want a professional politician to succeed him. His reason was that, while the professional politicians know

how to win elections by all means, they aren’t fit for serious, effective governance. Hence his choice of Obaseki...Click below to read more
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