Obaseki ladies are making us proud

senatordave1:


95% of defections in Edo are from pdp to APC

they decided to abandon the APC following the untold hunger and hardship brought by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu APC-led federal government administration

Worst are the APC folks

senatordave1:


Yes, but in the grand scheme of things in Oredo,he is a nobody.

A nobody today is a 'very important somebody' soonest.

senatordave1:


Can you compare a nobody like Sydney to senator Urhoghide from same Oredo? I am even going to far. Let me mention Hon Osakwue

Everybody is somebody

EDO: BATTLE FOR GOVERNMENT HOUSE 

7 hours ago

Austin Isikhuemen writes that the campaign is throwing up the good and the ugly

Politics is an interesting game. In Edo State it has been doubly so. Politics brings out the hidden contours of the real character of the players. It is not politics that is a dirty game as some folks wrongly assert. It is the players’ dirty ugliness to get unraveled and is mistaken for politics. Silhouettes that were hitherto subject to misinterpretation get seen in vivid colours when subjected to political contestation the Nigerian style.

A gubernatorial candidate campaigned with a plan to bring Shoprite (actually a shopping mall with the ShopRite franchise as a shop among several others) in 2007. To convince the people of Edo State that this shopping experience only available in Lagos and Port Harcourt as at then, was coming home to Edo, a swampy parcel of land was designated for its construction. A huge billboard with the candidate’s portrait was installed at the site. No one driving to the Niger Delta from Benin City or returning to the City could miss this landmark that promised a tantalizing shopping experience.

That candidate, who later spent eight full years as Governor, completed his second tenure in 2016. He left the project that Edo people were promised undone. The only progress made was the erection of that massive subterfuge of a billboard by Dumez Road junction on Sapele Road. There is no better monument to deception and affront to a people’s sensibility and memory. That swamp is still there today. The only beneficiaries are the winner who used that deceit stratagem and the massive toads that croak eerily there at night.

Mr. Godwin Obaseki (now His Excellency) never promised to build a “shoprite” in 2016. He has built a beautiful Benin City Mall, inclusive of an impressive digital library, along the same Sapele Road at a location easily accessible to all opposite. The Mall has since opened for business. It is a beautiful edifice to behold. Aesthetically finished, laid out with functionality and shopper experience as key consideration, the parking lot and general ambience is a shoppers’ paradise in Benin City. It adds to the general environmental uplift of the former Sapele Road rusty look with the Obaseki touch that starts from the former Central Hospital all the way down to the Murtala Mohammed Way roundabout.

Senator Adams Oshiomhole, a former Governor of Edo State, former national Labour Leader, current seating ‘distinguished’ Senator of the Federal Republic representing Edo State in the national legislative upper house. His own “shoprite” legacy is the billboard on Sapele Road. He is the one threatening to kill Shoprite should it dare to move into their paid for and legally allocated section of the Benin City Mall. It is this sort of unilateral contract breach that just led to the embarrassing seizure of three Nigerian Presidential aircraft, including one bought without appropriation, in a foreign land. The man issuing this threat is not the one running to be the next Governor at whose campaign this threat was issued. The one running didn’t say so himself, at least to our hearing. His megaphone did.

This threat is unsettling for several reasons:

One, all governments, both federal and subnational, are desperately craving and taking actions to woo foreign investors and Edo State under the current government has attracted so many in the power sector, Agric space, petroleum refining, tech, hospitality and commerce exemplified by the coming of the Shoprite franchise and the Radisson brand. Why scare them now? In whose interest?

Two, the young and old, especially the youth of Edo State have welcomed this massive mall. This is in addition to a few others like Market Square and others springing up on Irhirhi road, Ikpoba Slope, Ugbowo, Ikpoba Hill and other areas. The lifestyle changes the mall shopping represents may be unacceptable to some leaders who want to be the only ones entitled to experience them in their government estacode-funded globetrotting. The rest of us are citizens too.

Three, such a typical mall employs a huge number of people. Managers, shop assistants, monitors, security staff, caterers, CCTV operators, computer experts, maintenance technicians, cleaners and several others. Could the distinguished Senator be unaware that the last nationwide protest was about hunger brought about by unemployment and unbearable inflation? This may well be so because in a TV show where he featured, he argued truculently that the protest was about regime change and had nothing to do with hunger.

Four, could it be a sign of the times that a former national labour leader, who Governor Obaseki built and named a massive Labour House in his honour recently in April, 2024 has lost touch with need for employment for the masses? This Mall that has already employed hundreds of mostly young people and many more in the pipeline should be closed so as to assuage the ego of someone who failed to build one where Obaseki succeeded? Should those young people be thrown into unemployment to increase the idle hands that can be lured into the devil’s workshop?

Five, one of the candidates in the scheduled 21 September 2024 gubernatorial election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, has made employment and attraction of investors a key part of his manifesto. Even in his forays to foreign lands to meet with Edos in Diaspora, his promise has been that he will provide a conducive environment for private businesses to thrive. He appeals to them to come home and invest to provide jobs and make good returns on their investment. This is being countered vehemently by the “spokesmouth” of one of the candidates with a threat to evict even those already here!

Is distinguished Oshiobaba aware at all that he is not on the ballot and, like in 2020, he is becoming an albatross again? Can Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu please remind him that these scaremongering did not work then and will not work now. It is the height of disrespect to think that Edo voters will accept any proposition, no matter how outlandish, preposterous and self-serving and choose the leader who so proposes as their next governor.

I can posit that had Senator Oshiomole promised us that he will leave the old state library leaking, walls cracked and pillars giving way, flooded and without books, we would not have elected him. If he had told us he would kill Edo Line that had been there since the first republic as Midwest line, that he would leave the Ministry of Education burnt, kill Uromi Cassavita and Ehor Fruit juice factory and the employment these would have provided, perhaps he would not have become the executive governor of Edo State.

No one knew he would not step a foot into the premises of Edo Broadcasting Service, fix the place nor make a single broadcast from that station in eight years. The dilapidated structures, built by Prof. Ambrose Alli in a single tenure and arguably the best offices of that era, has now been revamped and brought up to the standard of Obaseki era projects. With digital broadcast equipment installation ongoing, broadband access provided and premises driveways paving being addressed, that station would be back as the star station to watch and listen to. What of the colleges of Agriculture and Education? What of Benin Technical College and the former ADP on Airport road now turned to Agriculture Hub?

Has Governor Obaseki not turned the dilapidated structures and yard of the killed Edo line into the public service transportation technology hub called MegaConnect serving Edo State and saving millions of naira today? The technology driven civil and public service of Edo State that its peers in the South South have rated as a marvel and have come to understudy may well be reverted from the current paperless state to a recidivist and archaic paper-full era. This is to accommodate a leadership that knows a lot about computer sales but not its use. Did Jarrett Tenebe, APC State leader, not imply so publicly at a press conference?

Oshiomhole alone is enough to make Edo citizens and even members of APC to bet on a safe horse (Asue Ighodalo) in this race. You only need to watch the former Labour leader on AriseTV as he almost tried to keep the presenters and analyst trio from asking him questions. Go watch it on UTube. It was as if his very existence depends on winning this election! That programme, appropriately should have been attended by the candidate of his party who should speak for himself. But a combined surrogate and godfather has usurped that role and has now become the issue in the coming election. Interesting times indeed.

It is interesting that both the PDP (represented by the intellectual and logic-driven facts-loving scion of a respected political dynasty, Oseyili Anenih) and APC (represented by the irrepressible Gadaffi – Prince Emmanuel Odigie) have responded appropriately to that AriseTV diatrible. While all these are going on, Asue is presenting his manifesto and defending it across the state and among our people in the diaspora.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/08/18/edo-battle-for-government-house-2/

Edo guber: Hundreds of APC supporters defect to PDP in Oredo. by Idahosa Moses

August 17, 2024



The support base of the Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Candidate for the September 21, 2024 Election in Edo State, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, was further boosted on Saturday as 111 former members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oredo Ward 1 In Benin City defected to the PDP.

This is even as over 200 members of the APC in the Oredo Ward 1 have concluded plans to also dump the APC for the PDP-Asue Ighodalo’s governorship quest

Speaking at the ceremony, Pastor Sidney Egede, who led the former APC members to the PDP said that they decided to abandon the APC following the untold hunger and hardship brought by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu APC-led federal government administration

Edo 2024: Ighodalo ends US diaspora tour in New York

He asserted that APC as the party is not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, and advised the person to vote massively for the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who according to him will bring all round development to the people as governor.

According to Egede, “APC not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State “because since May last year, when the President came into power, he has brought extreme poverty to the people that we have never experienced in Nigeria before.

“I have told many people in Oredo Ward 1 that they should join the PDP. This is because PDP has never inflicted this kind of suffering on our people.

“We cannot continue to play politics with our lives. We need to come together and stand for the candidature of Dr. Asue Ighodalo and Barr. Osarodion Ogie in this coming election in Edo”.

He further stated that his decision to dump the APC was informed by the choice of the party’s gubernatorial candidate and opined that more qualified aspirants with electable qualities were jettisoned for what he described as the ‘most mediocre’.

“I am even angry that the party brought out somebody like that in the midst of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Dr. David Imuse and Dr. Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe. They could have brought out one of these persons for the election.

“But for then to have gone so low to bring the most mediocre of them all, it is sad. APC has lost the election already and their choice of candidate will make them lose the election”, Egede said

Receiving the decamping into the party on behalf of the state PDP Chairman Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, the Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, SAN, thanked the people for joining the party.

Earlier, Special Adviser on Media and Projects to the Edo State governor, Hon. Osagie Crusoe, while commending the former APC leader for leading the people into the PDP, said that with Egede, PDP will record resounding victory in the Ward in the election.

Osagie who is one of the leaders of PDP in Oredo Ward 1 and who is the sponsor of Garrison Political Force and Overflow Movement and Good Force Organisation for Asue Ighodalo and Osarodion Ogie, described Egede as a formidable asset to the PDP.

“In this coming election, we are not going to have any formidable opposition because the only person who we used to contend against in elections is Sidney Egede who is now coming to join forces with us.

“So, it is going to be a one-way election for the PDP in this coming September 21 gubernatorial election in Edo State”, Crusoe assured


https://tribuneonlineng.com/edo-guber-hundreds-of-apc-supporters-defect-to-pdp-in-oredo/

Young people cannot and should not be patient. They should show their eagerness to bring about change and improve the country.

Provalker:

You will soon switch to your Garfield monkier after the elections. I expect to see you in 4 years time supporting another Apc miscreant in Edo.
Asue is a goal.

ASUE the PDP candidate is the man not the surrogate APC candidate

Asue Ighodalo (A.I) is the clear choice for Edo State. He presented his manifesto, "PROSPERITY FOR ALL," first, articulating his vision, programs, and policies. He has consulted with Edolites worldwide, pledging to bring his experience and knowledge to take Edo State to a new level of progress and prosperity.

MONDAY OKPEBHOLO IS MUTE, UNABLE TO ARTICULATE HIS PLANS AND VISION FOR THE STATE. HIS CAMPAIGN IS spearheaded by Senator Adams Oshiomole, making it seem like A SURROGATE GOVERNORSHIP. His manifesto is a poorly doctored version of Pastor Ize-Iyamu's 2020 manifesto, SHOWING HIS UNPREPAREDNESS FOR THE OFFICE.

On wonder he supported Dennis idahosa

Sound bites of carelessness and corruption.

Because of corruption of rent seeking coterie of crooks

Borrow borrow and violation of business agreements brings embarrassment.

So?
Lots of our senators ain't scholarly, they ain't intellectually either, neither are they productive to the state and economy. They just collect fat pay.

Handiwork of baterians

Apc the Fuji house of confusion

APC virus has infected them

It should then be renamed Nigeria Ghost Force (NGF).

Another side of the story

APC is harmful to Nigeria's economy

senatordave1:


Kamala is leading in 7 of the 9 swing states and that is very crucial. how dare you question opinion polls in the USA where it works all the time?

Biden was at 62% and Trump 58%. Now Harris is at 61% and Trump is at 60%, a 2% growth. In Bethlehem County one of the hot grounds in Pennsylvania both candidates are tied. That county flips, Obama, Trump then Biden. The issues for the old and young is the economy which has nosedived. Most of the voters are undecided they are waiting for Harris to roll out her economic plans before they make up their minds. As Senator, Harris voted against the Inflation Reduction Act and her vote was the deciding vote yet Americans voted the Dems in the thinking that they would do better. They haven't improved things, rather they proved that they are out to suffer the people through their incompetent steps. So what is she going to roll out as economic policies? As the border Czar what would she tell Americans concerning her inability to keep the borders safe from illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists? The latest polls are an attempt by the media to project Harris as the leading candidate so as to influence the voters but am sure if you've followed the campaigns you'll see alot of push back from African Americans. In 2016 Hilary had everything going for her but a political rookie beat her despite going into the election with a 33% chance but today he is at 44%. "Donald Trump is a threat to democracy" is Biden's campaign slogan and that of much of the Dems but that can't win them votes, it can in Nigeria where primordial sentiments are manifestos. There, the economy and national security is top most. Try tune in to CNN the favorite network of Dems, you will get the gist. Polls are known to be manipulated, infact social media ain't tolerating the false narratives from sides. Harris is well aware that USA ain't Nigeria where she can run away from public debate. She better sit up because she is going to meet a tough debater, a former president, a business man and a trained economists. Laughter, blanking out and "Trump is a threat to democracy" ain't gonna sway voters because they know Trump's passion, compassion, policies and stand on issues. He says it openly without hiding behind emotions or manipulation of ethnic identity.

Nebuchadnezar:
Whenever I see my fellow Obidients trying to brush aside Peter Obi partnership with Atiku, I always marvel.
If Nigerians really want to dispose APC come 2027 then Obi must either partner with Atiku or step aside.
Any ticket with Obi on it will be another long 4 years of APC and tinubu.
This is not emotions but politics.
Even tinubu will be praying against Atiku/Obi partnership because he stood no chance no matter the rigging.
Right now the focus of Nigerians should be to remove APC in power.
With this I'll advice Obi to either step aside or Partner with Atiku.
As for me I'll prefer him stepping aside.
man has really tried his best by being the only politician in Nigeria with zero corruption records.
he's a multi billionaire and doing well for himself.
besides he can still be president in the future because age is still by his side.
The goal now is to remove APC from power because it's obvious that they're failed Nigerians.
Obidients should understand that politics is not emotional.
You can't want a better Nigeria and still enable tinubu for second tenure.
You'll be contradicting yourself.


I remain King Nebuchadnezar

Atiku can also step aside. The trio can contest while we make our choice if obi is key to the victory or defeat of APC then he is the main factor regardless of his coming third.

senatordave1:


Yet she will win trump according to the latest polls

Who conducted the polls and what is the sample size? Just follow the campaigns on the popular international networks and make ur opinion. USA as the leader of free world deserves better. Her interviews as vp was just laughter and mis yarns. Alot of the undecided voters seem pro Trump especially the blacks whose business thrived under Trump. Trump had 6% of black votes in 2020 but he may more than quadruple it because the blacks are breaking out of the Dems manipulation of their identity for electoral victory. Kamala is south Asian according to her but black according to Obama and his gang

PNomsule:
what do you know about Kamala, Madam President in waiting?

I have followed her campaigns and she is struggling to articulate ideas on internal issues such the border, national reserve, crypto etc. She is lost in international politics, I hope she improves because Trump will eclipse her. Generally she is unfit for VP talk more of President. She is not quarter of Hilary Clinton. Nancy Palosy would have done better.

senatordave1:


Adeleke outspoken lol.does he speak it fluently like oyetola? Shut up if you have nothing to say.are you aware that Okpebholo speaks Hausa and

Monday wey APC dey hide like dustin. Asue please continue to articulate your sound views about Edo's future under you. You have justified your school fees and you are making your teachers and peers proud.

senatordave1:


Engr onolemenmen will retain the seat sir,Asue can retain sterling Bank.can Adeleke articulate himself

Adeleke is outspoken. He speaks English, Yoruba and Igbo. You retain what you have not what you don't have. A candidate that can't criss cross the state and communicate his intentions to all segments of the society is unfit to lead bright and smart Edolites. Asue is cerebral character, even Monday knows that thus the hide and seek.

Blessing or curse?

Rivers State is flowing with fubara

Praxis758:
Both the LP and PDP candidate have address and spoken to the media except this APC candidate. Why?

Is he camera shy or grammatically unsound?

We need a debate between this trio.

The APC candidate will retain his Senate seat. He lacks the capacity to articulate his ideas

Kukutente23:

Is he really that bad?

Folks down there tell me he is below the capacity a guber candidate should be. They seem to understand that there are forces bent on foisting a man
who through protest votes became a senator but lacks the vertical knowledge to function in that office so voting him in as governor is to empower a third party.