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Offpoint1:
This isn't funny, I wasn't expecting Obi to win AK, AK is a known PDP state from Day one... APC winning AK will the greatest joke.

No point in announcing further results, INEC should just announce APC winner... The joke is getting boring.

Change is the only constant thing in life. At some point in time it couldn't even be imagined that APC could win a councillorship election in Bayelsa the home state of the very Jonathan whose 2015 loss formed the basis of APC resentment in the SS and SE. But sooner than expected, the same APC had a landslide in a governorship election for that matter in Bayelsa and it turned out to be based on genuine votes without rigging.
Politics is dynamic and people's minds and perceptions change with time, experience and circumstances. Did anyone expect SE people to ever later have any reason to dump their dearly beloved PDP for even Apga let alone hitherto unknown LP?

Bundaweber:
Abeg shut up!!! When oshiomole said that we should reject obaseki we gree? No be towagba we dey shout upandan. Now we e gba wetin we see from him hand. Leave people to their choices and pray for the best. Obi might even be worst

Exactly. Now that towargba has boomeranged on them, rather than honourably take responsibility, they are looking for ways to blame Oshiomhole again.

Why I agree with you that Obi will be worse is that those currently shouting Obidient in Edo State are exactly the same people who shouted Ogbane and Towargba and therefore caused the very disaster they now accuse Obaseki of becoming. Secondly, Obi is being hyped as a "frugal" person just the same way they hyped Obaseki similarly and the Obaseki frugality has caused hardship in Edo State today.

Nigeriayouthmov:
Etsako that will soon be added to kogi? If you people keep pampering bad politicians will they ever learn? I said this last year about Etsako people and it played out in the election. The disaster obaseki today was also brought to us by oshimole, what about Buhari another disaster was also brought by oshimole and now he is bringing another disaster Tinubu and you all with your stupid selves voted him?

Shuo! Obaseki now suddenly a disaster? The same Obaseki you Binis said in 2020 was the long awaited Edo State Messiah who was fighting for the common man by resisting Oshiomhole's alleged demand for the state's resources?
I guess Esans ( your closest brothers) will soon be added to Kogi State too far the victory of APC in Edo Central Senatorial election just yesterday.
Yes, Oshiomhole messed up by ever bringing Obaseki into Edo State politics against the sincere advise from countless stakeholders in 2016 but when he realized this mistake in 2020 and decided to see it corrected, wasn't it some of you Binis and Esans that voted him back while calling Oshiomhole names? So why blame Oshiomhole now that he wasn't responsible for Obaseki's second coming?

Skty:
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

I nor come from Edo. But Edo beat APC hands down. I for call u Ozuor

Na you be Ozuor. Typical Ipobian feigning Edo State origin. Is APC not still indirectly ruling Edo State? Did your Obaseki agree to concede any of his appointments to the genuine legacy PDP members? Youths blinded by sentiments and self delusion.

Class01:
So from what you are seeing happening in Edo State now, do you still honestly believe Obaseki was a lesser evil to Ize Iyamu? If so, then how come Ize Iyamu, the bigger evil, was preferred in 2016 according to the same you? And how exactly did you come to the conclusion that Edo people prefer having Atiku, a Fulani, succeed Buhari - another Fulani, over Tinubu? If anything, only Obaseki and the few benefiting from him currently support a Fulani-Fulani succession. No rational thinking Edo State person would accept that. And majority of Edo people currently hate Obaseki and anything which has to do with him directly or indirectly.



Seems you don't get the angle.
We have no issue with Eze Iynamu infact we voted him as our governor ahead of Obaseki when Oshomole was leaving office. when vote counting was ongoing, he was leading and at mid night, INEC said they will continue the counting in the morning and when they came back, Obaseki was declared winner.


Key note.

1) When we voted Eze Iyamu ahead of Obaseki, it was not about Obaseki but was because we had issue with Oshomole and Obaseki was coming through Oshomole.

2) Fast track forward, When we voted Obaseki ahead of Eze Iyamu, it was not about Eze Iyamu or Obaseki. But Eze Iyamu was coming through Oshomole and we have issues with Oshomole.

If you don't understand it from the angle of lesser evil over greater evil, try understand it from the aspect of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
As for Tinubu. We don't have issues with him except that

1) He look dementia.
2) We have issue with APC
3) We have issues with Buhari and his government and he is coming from Buhari.



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Even your shifting of goalpost from greater evil vs lesser evil to enemy of my enemy doesn't still cut it.
One would assume that political enmity should be premised on bad records and poor leadership. However, this doesn't seem to be your definition of it because when Osunbor came through Obasanjo, Tony Aneni godfatherism and rigging all combined in 2007, you opted for him over the same Oshiomhole who had no such factors behind him. So your alternate theories fail.

Likewise in 2015, Buhari came through Obasanjo whom your likes perceive as a statesman yet you resisted him. In 2019, Atiku came through the same Obasanjo and this time you voted for him. So your theory of whom a candidate is coming through is something you yourself have not consistently held onto. Try proposing another hypothesis.

Skty:
The guy @deadlytruth is probably from Osun state, angry about the 'Edo nor be Lagos' mantra....and disgrace to his fav - BAT..he knows nothing about Edo State

By this alone you have just indicated that you are rather the one not from Edo State as no true Edo State native resorts to name calling or accusing those who reason differently from his as being from elsewhere. Only Ipobians are known for that and I suspect you are one.
Edo no be Lagos is already stale in Edo State and only non Edo State natives and non-residents are unaware of this.
Just take a trip to Benin and listen to people in the streets to hear for yourself the verdict on Obaseki.

Skty:
I won't say much on this issue. People have different opinion.. sometimes, it don't marrer . Can you believe someone engaged me on Twitter saying Lucky was far better than Oshiomole? The person nearly finished me with curse. Same Lucky that didn't do roads? Even his his door mouth..e nor do. Insecurity that time, thieves then eh? House to house robbery...gunshots everyday ...well, na opinion things ..

But to me, Obaseki is the best. Sometimes,I think it's how people perceive things

Saying Obaseki is the best is not really too different from saying Lucky did better than Oshiomhole. If Obaseki is even good at all, how come Edo State has now fallen so low as to be commissioning street lights which weren't even erected by the Obaseki who is commissioning them?

tonididdy:
Lol abeg Wetin be the difference btw your number 2 point and the original post you quoted .

Being in control of a state's politics is not same as godfatherism.
Awolowo was in control of Yoruba politics for long without being perceived as a godfather. Azikiwe controlled Igbo politics till he died and wasn't ever labelled a godfather. Ahmadu Bello had a strong grip and control of Northern Region politics and even singlehandedly handpicked Tafawa Balewa for prime minister position and till today no one accuses him of godfatherism.
The problem we have today is that words have lost their meanings in the heads of the present youths due to poor education hence they find it difficult to recognize political leadership and therefore regard any form of it as godfatherism.

DMerciful:
Stale

What you will surely return to in few hours from now is what you are describing as stale?

DMerciful:
Right from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violents taketh it by force. Obidients must take back our country by force!

What suddenly happened to "Our only hope is BIAFRA, why are you people holding us back in the zoo?"
Or is it that this your account is hacked?

NOETHNICITY:
I stopped reading your terrible write up when I got to the bolded. I can conclude that all you posted here are lies upon lies.
I was a beneficiary of Oshobaba employment scheme which took in about 10,000 employees within his first 1yrs in government. I was employed in the 2nd batch of that scheme and I made my first 45k in life.
That employment was what God used to save me from total collapse, and it became the launch pad of my success story.
You people should stop Lieing abeg

I just laughed too when I read his comment. He obviously doesn't live in Edo State else he would have heard of SEEFOR through which Oshiomhole employed many jobless women and youths in the rural areas in addition to many other employment schemes. Even the massive renovation of schools all over the state by Oshiomhole got a lot of youths and craftsmen engaged throughout his eight years thus buoying the state's economy unlike the present Mr. MOU who is hoarding cash in the name of building a phantom human capacity.

Indispensable85:
Undisputed best governor Edo State has had thus far is oshiomhole.

Mumu Obaseki is commissioning a 3km street light on a road constructed by oshiomhole.

Lucky igbinedion the ex convict is not worth a mention.

Edo is usually unlucky with governors from Edo south. They're disasters!

The failure of all Edo South governors in the history of Edo State is a cause for concern on the part of Edo South people. Oyegun was a disaster. Lucky Igbinedion was an epidemic, and now Obaseki is a catastrophe.

jice:
Ogemudia and Alli outwit Oshomole in performance. Ask your father.

Were Ogbemudia and Ambrose Alli ever governors of Edo State?

real777:
Nigeria governors are the laziest and the least intelligent in the world. Collect allocation from Abuja, pay salaries. Next is to reconstruct few substandard roads in already concentrated areas. All of these for 8 years and then the next one does his. No innovation, no well planned cities, no human capital development, no social security.

The difference between Oshiomole and Obaseki is this: while Oshio was building roads with wider views and some side walks, the current one is a sitting duck making all major roads in Benin city narrower. Two vehicles can hardly pass each other in opposite direction. The former used generator to power street lights while the latter is using Ossiomon gas plant. The both are very useless and a total failure in Edo State. The roads left by Ogbemudia is what they can't even maintain or expand let alone building their own world class roads. Nigeria and black Africans in general can't even show a local government in their state with close resemblance to the developed nations of the world.

Did Ogbemudia's roads survive till Oshiomhole's time to warrant the claim that Oshiomhole couldn't maintain them? Most of Ogbemudia's roads were in GRA and far before even Lucky Igbinedion came, they had all been damaged by flooding due to the fact that Ogbemudia built those roads without a single drainage. Just visit the part of Ihama road that stretches towards Adesuwa Road to see the lake that easily forms there when it merely drizzles. And that was Ogbemudia's legacy on roads.

Fira09:
Can you explain how he was better than igbenedion? though I don't see any of them better. I consistently prefer Igbenedion to Oshiomhole. On a safer note; none of them are better.

Obaseki is the worstest. Oshiomhole did more projects in the northern region of Edo State than the rest, are we supposed to call that 'better'?

Per the bolded, it is obvious you are plain dishonest. Over 50% of all Oshiomhole's projects were concentrated in Edo South particularly Benin City. The only places he did reasonable number of projects in Edo North is his Etsako areas and Etsako alone doesn't make up Edo North. Akoko-Edo and Owan put together beat Etsako in terms of population and landmass but if you get to either of these two parts of Edo North you would be compelled to ask if Oshiomhole ever saw them as part of Edo State during his tenure. Oshiomhole so favoured you Binis and Esans at the expense of Akoko-Edo and Owan, yet you Binis turned around and rewarded him with hatred. Though it serves him right because no one who tries to please outsiders at the expense of his own people doesn't end up in regret.

cassidy1996:
Its Ogbemudia, oshomole is far behind him

Ogbemudia was governor of Bendel State not Edo State.
If however you want to equate Bendel to Edo, then Ambrose Alli remains the all time best.

derecho:
Guy, I kno say una no dey like hear the truth.But Oshio knows but he'd not admit like every other politician.
This same arrogance was what he took into the last election but was taught a bitter lesson.
If na wetin bush radio write dey shack you, go wash your head o.
Bush radio just dey practice blogging o.
We sabi them

It was only you Bini people that voted against Oshiomhole based on nothing but hate for Edo North. Your arrogance excuse is a subterfuge. That of Esans was understood because they have always been pro-PDP regardless of anything. But the joy is that most of those regretting supporting Obaseki today are the same Binis.
Obaseki is busy rivaling your monarch who is revered world and that doesn't look like arrogance in your eyes but Oshiomhole was arrogant in your eyes for fighting a verbal war with his fellow politicians. What a misnomer!

derecho:
Kikikiki... Self-consolation

Hope you have seen the latest post about Obaseki commissioning in Benin his repair of some street lights which Oshiomhole who actually erected them never wasted money to commission? And you still believe that the scales have not fallen off people's eyes in Edo State about who between Oshiomhole and Obaseki was lying in 2020?

Landowner101:
Things like constant light is very hard to overcome in a place like Edo/ benin due to the forces operating there, just like it is hard to overcome scarcity of water in deserted countries, you guys don't truly understand what it took this man to successfully overcome this problem.

Please how has it been overcome? In my hometown we go for at least four to five days without electricity and then on the fifth day it comes for few minutes and goes again till another five days. Same with many other towns and villages. So how come we can't enjoy the gas plant?

Skty:
Well, Edo people didn't vote Obaseki because they love him. But they made sure they cancelled Oshiomole ....so they don't have a godfather like Tinubu collecting money from Lagos since 1999(an Osun man, controlling Lagos treasury) nor be juju be that

But how exactly was Oshiomhole trying to play godfather? This is the question those of you peddling this narrative have never been able to satisfactorily answer.
Now, ask yourself whether an ungodfathered Edo State is anywhere near Tinubu's allegedly godfathered Lagos.

The truth is that people voted for Obaseki for two reasons which were:
1. Buhari's alleged Fulanization agenda seemed to them a thing to be cancelled out by voting against APC
2. Bini people felt an Afemai person should not control Edo State politics. When their own Gabriel Igbinedion was playing the same godfatherism over Edo politics, didn't they obey him and voted his son, Lucky, for second term after a disastrous first term which his own father acknowledged in full public glare but quickly added that there was no vacancy in Osadebe House as he had paid for it for his son?

anomaly20:
By selected Areas , you mean Government house, secretariat and house of Assembly.
Even the street lights are not working.
Ugbowo axis dead, Ikpoba hill dead, Sakponba Road nonexistent and others.
Obaseki is worse than failure

In Edo State we owe Lucky Igbinedion a heartfelt apology for hitherto labelling him the worst governor.

Class01:
BETTER TO MAKE ENQUIRIES IF YOU ARE NOT SURE OF A THING THAN TO SPEAK WITHIN HAVING IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF IT.

PEOPLE PREFERRED EZE IYAMU. AS A MATTER OF FACT HE WON THE FIRST ELECTION WHEN OSHOMOLE WAS LEAVING OFFICE BUT FEDERAL POWER DECLARED OTHERWISE. GO BACK AND CHECK THERE WAS PROTEST TO THAT EFFECT. EDO

DURING THE SECOND TERM INSTEAD OF REMAIN IN PDP AND RECLAIM HIS STOLEN MANDATE, HE RAN TO APC THINKING OSHOMOLE CAN STILL PULL STRINGS BUT THE PEOPLE HAS ALREADY REJECTED ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES OR ASSOCIATE WITH OSHOMOLE HENCE OBASEKI WAS VOTED.

IT WAS A CASE OF CHOOSING LESSER EVIL TO A BIGGER EVIL EVEN WHEN YOU KNOW BOTH ARE EVIL.

RELATING THIS TO THE OBI YOU MENTIONED, IT IS THE REASON WHY ATIKU STILL HAS A CHANCE OF WINNING ESO STATE AHEAD OF TINUBU BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DONT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH APC AND BUHARI. [/color][color=#006600]

So from what you are seeing happening in Edo State now, do you still honestly believe Obaseki was a lesser evil to Ize Iyamu? If so, then how come Ize Iyamu, the bigger evil, was preferred in 2016 according to the same you? And how exactly did you come to the conclusion that Edo people prefer having Atiku, a Fulani, succeed Buhari - another Fulani, over Tinubu? If anything, only Obaseki and the few benefiting from him currently support a Fulani-Fulani succession. No rational thinking Edo State person would accept that. And majority of Edo people currently hate Obaseki and anything which has to do with him directly or indirectly.

Humble25:
We warn them but they didnt listen, now they have use they hands to bring a disaster and a failure upon themselves. how can a governer be commisioning a streetlight and calling that a project? For 6 years, upon all the billions that Edo is getting frm the FG. The laughable part is that this were done by oshiomole, he just replace them with new ones. Truly edo no be lagos

The primary school I attended in my hometown was rebuilt to world standard by Oshiomhole after it stayed in a delapidated state for over 30 years. During Obaseki's first term, he repainted it and erected a signboard by the entrance gate with his picture on it and claiming he renovated the school whereas Oshiomhole actually did the renovation. People who saw this deception of Obaseki in my hometown still went ahead and voted him for second term all in the name of fighting a phantom godfatherism. Today they are all foolishly surprised that Obaseki is himself the new aspiring godfather.
With such scenario you just realize Nigeria has a long way to go. And that is why I personally advocate the adoption of electoral college so as to tactically disenfranchise such stupid voters.

Menclothing:
Obaseki known failure

Even oshiomole can't do this

Even Lucky Igbinedion with all his looting and misgovernance never went as low as commissioning street lights.
Edo no be Lagos indeed. Shame on all the Torgbarians and Ogbanes.

tonididdy:
Allow me put records straight.
I'm an edo man and I agree with most of the comments here that obaseki shouldn't have being the one present in such occassioning.

About your last sentence, they are not solar lamps. They are powered by the edo state gas power plant. It's the first of its kind in Nigeria. A state independent generating plant capable of powering the whole of Edo houses but for now the plant serves the street lights around edo state from (6 to 6) and some selected communities already enjoy 24hrs electricity.

Please where in Edo State is the gas power plant located? I am from Edo State too and as far as I know, Obaseki himself says it on his Facebook handle that the street lights are solar powered. Please visit his Facebook page to read this for yourself.

Please could you list the selected communities you claim are currently enjoying 24 hour electricity in Edo State or are you just trying to do some comedy?

EjaikreTheViper:
SHUP UP!!! YOU SHAMELESS AMALA MUNCHING STIPEND COLLECTOR. FOCUS ON YOUR POOR WRETCHED OSUN STATE WHERE THE YOUTHS RIDE OKADA TO SURVIVE.

Is that monicker not correct? Are people not regretting in Edo State presently over their choice of 2020? Have you been to Edo State after 2020 to sample people's feelings since after the election?

Corrinthians:
The cruelty of our brothers from across the Niger knows no bounds. They were the people that supported this catastrophic failure of a governor the most, with their "Edo no be Lagos" bullshit.

Look at him today.

They just like throwing the worst set of politicians at people, just as they're trying to force the dirty dick called Obi down the throats of Nigerians.

It will never be well for the enemies of this country.

Couldn't have been better said. Look at what they plunged Edo State into today. Though I blame the gullible majority who fell for the idiotic Edo no be Lagos gimmick out of ignorance about the role which the Eastern Region people played in bringing about the age-long misgovernance in Nigeria.

Caseless:
dem Edo is not Lagos chanters... Dem eyes don clear.

They are so ashamed of themselves. Ironically about 90% of them have relocated to the same Lagos for survival on account of the hardship they began to face courtesy of Obaseki's terrible second term which they were warned about.

michealewela:
I will never forget the way igbo people supported this man during his reelection.

Exactly, and that is why I fear Obi presidency since he is being mostly supported by them.
They support based on emotions and not reason. See how Edo State is suffering today because of falling cheaply for their emotional campaign. It is really a shame onto the Edo-no-be-Lagos crew. They have all lost their voices now.

derecho:
Oshio don cast....forget him granting interviews everywhere

I just hope you will respond when I will come back to this thread after the election next year to draw your attention to Oshiomhole's victory. Our only fear is that there may be a bye election for Oshiomhole's seat in the Senate almost immediately after his victory due to the fact that Tinubu will give him an appointment if he emerges president.

derecho:
Kikikiki... Self-consolation

Just admit you are still living in the past as regards Oshiomhole's outlook in Edo State. Even the legacy PDP members in Edo State now confess that they were fooled by Obaseki. Oshiomhole has no real rival in Edo North Senatorial election of next year. Obaseki's political career is very likely to end once he serves out his second term because he really made no permanent friends politically. He is only out for himself and that is what all those who sang Edo-no-be-Lagos just two years ago have sadly realized.

derecho:
Guy, the morning shows the day.Oshiomole is an expired milk and has outlived his usefulness.
Edo north is not short of capable people.

Like, that age long axiom
Wetin Old man wey siddon for mat fit see, small pikin wey climb palmtree no go fit see am.

2023 dynamics different

Please visit Edo North right now to confirm whether Oshiomhole is expired milk or not. Obaseki's huge failure alone has re-endeared people back to Oshiomhole because Oshiomhole now seems vindicated. Did you hear that Obaseki has not been able to meaningfully explain what he did with the 13% derivation arrears paid him by Buhari? Haven't you heard that Obaseki hasn't been able to commission one single project in Edo State since he purportedly ended godfarherism which he claimed was the channel through which state funds meant for projects were being siphoned? Haven't you heard that Obaseki hasn't been able to renovate a single primary or secondary school like Oshiomhole did in every town and village during his tenure? Haven't you heard that Obaseki outsources his few low quality road projects to his friends and cronies from the same Lagos he said Edo is not? Why is he currently in a messier battle with the legacy PDP members who helped him chant Edo-no-be-Lagos? Where is Dan Orbih today?