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in Edo, when you are ugly, you are blessed

Obaseki ain't that ugly

The bubble finally seems to have burst for the ruling All Progressive Congress national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.

After several weeks of controversies, it is now crystal clear that the relationship between Mr Oshiomhole, and his protégé, Mr Obaseki, has broken down.

Mr Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo, helped Mr Obaseki to succeed him as the state governor in 2016, against all the odds.

The governor is likely going to seek re-election next year.

The first clear evidence of the rift between the two was a recent call from Edo State for the resignation of Mr Oshiomhole as the APC national chairman.


The call, made by a chieftain of the APC in Edo and a former political adviser to Mr Oshiomhole, Charles Idahosa, was forwarded, Thursday, to media houses, including PREMIUM TIMES, by Governor Obaseki’s spokesperson, Crusoe Osagie.

Mr Idahosa accused Mr Oshiomhole of instigating crisis within the APC in Edo.

“We are all not very happy with what is happening in Edo State today, especially with the political division and the confusion,” the email from the Governor Obaseki’s spokesperson quoted Mr Idahosa to have said.

“This is a situation in which we ought to be very happy; it is so strange. It is like a tragi-comedy with what is happening. We have a governor who was brought up by a political party and the people out there are very happy and commending this governor for working so hard. He is very popular and you will attest to that but the problem is with the leadership of the party.

“While the voters are very excited, the people who brought him into power are not happy with him because, according to them, he is not carrying them along,” Mr Idahosa said.


Loud silence

Three weeks ago, when PREMIUM TIMES called Governor Obaseki’s spokesperson, Mr Osagie, to ask about the rift between the governor and Mr Oshiomhole, he refused to answer questions.

He referred the newspaper instead to an earlier statement by the Secretary to the Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie, on the issue.

Mr Ogie, in the statement, described media reports on the rift as “unfounded speculations and fake news”.


He said, “The robust relationship between Governor Obaseki and his brother, friend, predecessor, and National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is waxing stronger daily.

“No amount of speculations, hate statements and fake news can erode the friendship built over the years on mutual trust and respect, which has translated to good governance in Edo State.”

Mr Obaseki himself helped to fuel the speculations when he cried out recently that some “greedy” politicians were putting pressure on him to share state funds to them.


Mr Obaseki did not say who the “greedy” politicians were, but many thought he may have referred to the APC national chairman and his supporters.

Controversial inauguration

The controversy over the ‘inauguration’ and the ‘election’ of a new Speaker for the Edo State House of Assembly has also lent credence to the existence of a rift between Mr Oshiomhole and Mr Obaseki.

All the 24 members of the state assembly belong to the APC.


But nine of them, allegedly prompted by the state governor, hurriedly met at night to ‘inaugurate’ the House and also ‘elect’ a speaker.

The other lawmakers-elect were excluded in order to prevent Mr Oshiomhole’s loyalists from taking control of the legislature, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

But the new speaker, Frank Okiye, said the remaining lawmakers-elect would be inaugurated when they “complete their documentation”.

After the ‘inauguration’, Mr Okiye adjourned sitting to July 17.


Governor Obaseki has since congratulated Mr Okiye and pledged to work with the new leadership of the assembly.

But Vincent Uwaidia, a barrister and one of the lawmakers-elect who was excluded from the ‘inauguration’, told PREMIUM TIMES he does not accept the assembly leadership “so long as the proper thing has not been done”.

Mr Uwaidia’s comment may very well be the thinking of the lawmakers-elect who were excluded from the ‘inauguration’.


“As I speak to you, I have not been invited to the inauguration of the House, I have not been sworn in as a lawmaker,” Mr Uwaidia said.

Samson Osagie, a former state and federal lawmaker, said: “strictly speaking, there is no House of Assembly for now in Edo State”.

“You can only have a House when it is properly constituted,” Mr Osagie said. “The only way forward is for the right thing to be done; the House must be properly constituted, nothing more, nothing less.”


The national leadership of APC, led by Mr Oshiomhole, has rejected the ‘inauguration’ of the Edo assembly, calling for a fresh exercise.

“It needs restating that every elected lawmaker has a legitimate right to participate unhindered in the inauguration of the legislative arm in which he belongs.

“The plot to arm-twist the majority in favour of the minority in the legislative arm died with the defeat of the PDP in 2015,” the party stated on Friday, through its national spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu.


Mr Oshiomhole has personally described the ‘inauguration’ of the Edo assembly as “illegal and embarrassing”.

But the Edo government in its response said the national chairman of APC was being biased to have accused Governor Obaseki of having a hand in the affairs of the assembly.

“For the avoidance of doubt, all the decisions relating to the leadership of the Edo State House of Assembly recently elected by the House were taken by the State Working Committee and leaders of the party from across the State,” Mr Osagie, the governor’s spokesperson, said in a statement on Saturday.


“In deference to the rule of party supremacy, which the National chairman so eloquently professes, the governor and all party members are obliged to respect the party’s decision, as we expect the national chairman to also do,” Mr Osagie said.

The Speaker of the Edo assembly, Mr Okiye, has also responded by saying “the APC lacks the powers to adjudicate on constitutional functions of the legislature.”

Rodsimeon Idaewor, a journalist in Benin City, Edo, told PREMIUM TIMES there was no need to pretend about it, “Mr Oshiomhole and Governor Obaseki are at war against each other”.


He said Mr Oshiomhole should be held responsible for the political crisis in the state.

“Nobody knew of Obaseki in Edo State politics, Oshiomhole singlehandedly brought him and rigged the election to make him governor.

“Obaseki is a gentleman, and highly educated. He came on board and decided to change the way things were done. Oshiomhole’s administration did things anyhow, they threw money about carelessly. But in Obaseki’s administration, people must follow due process.

“If you visit Edo State, you will see that Obaseki has done excellently well, even with the little resources available to his administration.

“Oshiomhole wants to sit in Abuja and be dictating things to Obaseki, but the governor does not want to take it,” Mr Idaewor said.

PREMIUM TIMES again contacted Mr Osagie, the governor’s spokesperson, Saturday night, and asked him if it was not clear enough that there was a rift between the governor and the APC national chairman, going by the events of the past few days.


“The governor has said he does not have any issue with the national chairman,” Mr Osagie responded.

Mr Oshiomhole’s spokesperson, Simon Ebegbulem, did not respond to phone calls and a text message to his phone on Saturday.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/336510-its-no-longer-secret-oshiomhole-governor-obaseki-at-war.html

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Oshiomhole fighting his brothers from the same state... Oyegun n Obaseki

The All Progressives Congress has attacked its former national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, accusing him of contributing largely to the misfortune the party has suffered recently.

The party recorded major losses in the last governorship elections, the latest being its loss of all positions in Zamfara State.

The APC said Mr Oyegun who left office in 2018 was responsible for indicipline in the party and failed to harmonise the party ahead of the polls.

The comment came after Mr Oyegun said that Mr Oshiomhole was incapable of administering a political party.

“Oshiomhole fails because he lacks the temperament that is required to run a political party. He lacks the capacity to manage the different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party,” The Punch newspaper quoted Mr Odigie-Oyegun to have said on Sunday.

“He acts in direct opposite of decisions taken by NWC. No minutes of NWC meetings which, in any event, take place outside the party secretariat.

“How would you not have crises in states with the confusion that Oshiomhole created when he gave the states freedom to choose their methods of choosing candidates for elections?

“Much of the crisis in states arose out of sheer incapacity on the part of the current chairman. How does this Oshiomhole’s incapacity become traps by Oyegun?

“He (Oshiomhole) engages his mouth before engaging his mind, so he offends party members,” he said.

APC reacts to losses

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, in an interview with journalists said if Oyo, Imo, Bauchi, Adamawa, and Zamfara States were taken one by one, it will be discovered that there were peculiar issues in the respective states that accounted for how the APC lost them rather than the voters preferring the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“I would put the painful outcomes broadly under two reasons. One is indiscipline on the part of some members of our party in most of the states. The second reason is that the party leadership did not do much between 2015 and 2018 to move the party from being an amalgam of different political parties to become a truly blended progressive political party,” Mr Issa-Onilu stated.

He said the next three years are very important as the APC under the leadership of the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, will continue to strengthen compliance with the rules, build support structures for democracy, ensures discipline across board, and deliver good governance for the benefits of all Nigerians.

“We expect members who have different agenda to join their kind in PDP. We will welcome with open arms, those who share our progressive ideals, so that by 2022, we will have a party whose members are truly progressives,” the APC spokesman said.

‘Oyegun-led NWC accommodated impunity, certain members were superior to the party’

The APC spokesperson said the immediate-past National Working Committee led by John Odigie-Oyegun as National Chairman lacked the courage required to confront the pockets of political despots who could not operate by the party’s rules.

The effect, he said, was widespread indiscipline across party ranks, lack of respect for party supremacy as witnessed in the 8th National Assembly leadership and its overall inability to align the varying interests of the legacy parties that came together to form the APC in 2014.

“Let me agree that the NWC that led the party into the 2015 elections and continued till June 2018 did nothing different from what you would find in PDP. It was a period the party was seen as a mere vehicle to attain political office. The system accommodated impunity as certain members appeared to be superior to the party. Their interests were far more important than the collective interests of the APC, even when most times such interests are at variance with the ideals the party stand for.

“You would recall that it was under that leadership that some impudent members of APC called the bluff of the party by imposing themselves on the National Assembly as leaders contrary to the position of the party. Where was the party? Where was the discipline when this happened? It would be difficult to calculate what lack of courage to assert the party supremacy cost APC over that period. The consequences of the inaction of the party were unimaginable. We all saw the consequences on governance as the National assembly practically held our government to ransom. The impunity, which President Muhammadu Buhari has rightly described as lack of patriotism, constituted an unfortunate hindrance to the smooth running of government.

“The leadership under Chief Oyegun, with due respect to him, condoned all sorts of acts of indiscipline from certain members. It is not surprising that the current National Working Committee inherited such a huge mess, where the party was struggling to differentiate itself from the delinquent PDP. We all know that PDP was practically dead following the devastating defeat of 2015. The PDP bounced back not because the party has changed its insidious way or did anything different, but because APC did not live up to expectations.

“It goes without saying that when an organisation is unable to enforce its own rules, it would suffer the consequences sooner than later. We should not be ashamed to say that our party’s leadership under Chief Oyegun lacked the courage required to confront the pockets of political despots who could not operate by the party’s rules,” Mr Issa-Onilu said.

Letter by Party’s Deputy National Chairman (North), Lawal Shuaib

The APC spokesperson said assertions made by a senator, Lawal Shuaib, in a letter to Mr Oshiomhole portrayed the NWC as a bunch of cowards looking for a scapegoat to pass on the blame following undesired results in his home Zamfara State.

Mr Shuaib in his letter had blamed Mr Oshiomhole for the party’s losses in Zamfara State, and called for his resignation.

“When he [Senator Lawal Shuaib] alleged that the National Chairman is running the party like a sole administrator, does that mean the rest of us are incompetent? I doubt if he would have many members of the NWC supporting him in this. The ability to face up to the challenges and to take responsibility for mistakes are important qualities of a leader. If the NWC had taken any action that did not produce the desired result, it would be plain cowardice to look for a scapegoat or pass on the blame to another person.

“Since the Comrade Oshiomhole-led NWC came to office, we have been doing our best to institutionalise the best ideals of progressive politics. We understand that we must bring everyone under the fold of the party, where all of us would be subject to our party’s rules and conventions. We understand that impunity can provide temporary advantage and even successes. But ultimately, those successes would be short-lived. PDP is a living example of the inherent calamity of impunity. The PDP era brought calamity to the country and ultimately led to the loss of power. What I read from that letter is a call to continue along that trend. With due respect, that is not what APC stands for,” Mr Issa-Onilu said.

Under Oshiomhole, APC improved significantly on 2015 results

Despite some 2019 election losses recorded in some states, Mr Issa-onilu said the APC has improved significantly on the result of 2015 under the leadership of Mr Oshiomhole. He said the National Chairman cannot be blamed for the avoidable losses recorded in some states as some stakeholders failed to follow the party’s directives and ensure internal democracy.

Mr Issa-Onilu said: “Since we are comparing 2015 to what has happened now, we should remember that our President was elected in 2015 with over 15 million votes as against the PDP’s 13 million plus. There was about 2.5 million votes difference. Under Oshiomhole, we have over 15 million votes as against PDPs 11 million plus. There you have nearly four million votes difference. So for the Presidential election, our party has improved significantly on the result of 2015.

“The situation was expectedly different at the state level. The state players have the foremost responsibility to win elections in their states. What we can do at the national level is to provide the necessary support. The support starts from conducting transparent primaries that ensure the party produces popular candidates. Of course, certain state players in our party expected business as usual where other players are subjugated for them so that their wishes are imposed on other APC members in their states. This we could not do and I dont think we need to apologise for doing the right thing. By now, the states that failed to follow the partys directives are the ones that may be regretting.

“We have examples of Governors who are true progressives who worked with the NWC to ensure things were done right. Look at Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, Kano, Nasarawa, Katsina, Jigawa, Borno, Yobe, etc. The Governors and leaders of APC in these states worked according to the rules in conjunction with the NWC and we all can see that the sweetest victory is the one achieved under a free and fair engagement with the opposition.

“This is what our party wants to showcase. This is the example President Buhari has shown by ensuring that we had a presidential election in this country without seeking to award himself any advantage over his opponents. The President has the instruments to use under him, but he rather subjected himself to the rules of the contest. If the President did not expect the party to manipulate his own election, why should anyone else expect that from the party?

“These people who are looking for who to blame are not talking about Kwara and Gombe. These were PDP states that we won landslide. We won in these two states because the local players adjusted to the change agenda of the party. I am from Kwara, we won 100 percent in such a transparent manner that the PDP had nothing to complain about. Do not forget that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki is from Kwara. Kwara presented us the evidence that if we shun impunity and play by the rules, Nigerians would reward us with votes. The same is the situation in Gombe. Do these people want to give Oshiomhole credit for our victories in Kwara and Gombe states? Or they just believe APC must win by all means everywhere?”

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