Elections are the only instrument of Democratic and peaceful transfer of power with the consent and choice of the majority as Edo state governorship election set to hold tomorrow, Saturday, 19th September, 2020.

Reporting from the street of Benin, Edo State capital, Mrs Precious a member of the All Progressive congress (APC), told reporter that she had always cherished the “leadership strength and capacity of (the incumbent governor) Godwin Obaseki,” and would have love to vote him if he had not dumped the APC. So Mr Obaseki’s decamping to the PDP was a factor in deciding who will earn her vote tomorrow, she said.

Also, a loyalist of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who want his name anonymous, said Pastor Ize Iyamu was a strong grassroot member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who contested in the last gubernatorial election with the hope of coming back to give a good governance to the state but under the same umbrella party to cover the people of Edo state but reverse is the case today... So tomorrow will decide, he said.

Though, there are 14 candidates for the election, but the quest for the chief security officer of the state has been rested on the shoulder of two strong personalities in the race, between the current Governor, Godwin Obaseki(PDP) and his opponent four years ago, Osagie Ize-Iyamu(APC).

This newspapers reported how both men swapped political parties and are now respective flag-bearers of the parties they opposed in the last governorship election — Mr Obaseki now upholds the umbrella of the PDP while Mr Ize-Iyamu now swings the broom of the APC.

A bus driver along ring road Benin in his word “We just want him (Governor Obaseki) to complete his eight years term. He is a nice man,” Master Osanrenren, said.

However, a young lady in the Bus said she will vote Mr Ize-Iyamu because of the support of Adams Oshiomhole, the state’s two-term former governor and APC former chairman, whose unending battle with Mr Obaseki accumulated to his sack as the party head and the former decamping to the opposition.

“He has done so much for Edo State,” Glory, a student of Auchi polytechnic Edo State, said.


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