kalu61: I'm not in support of either candidate but what you just explain is also the reverse for both men.Izu as well was in pdp and got loysliet too that are still loyal but l can assure you that Obaseki loyalist in APC is not as you just exaggerated it. We read many resigning from my his government. With Adams as the formal national chairman with APC structure that succeeded in disqualify a seating governor means, Obaseki never had strong hold of APC. He is the one who needs ward to ward buddy, don't argue it.
Governor Obaseki shut down ring road today, the people loved the governor. I witnessed the crowd. It's only God that can stop Obaseki. Obaseki brought life to PDP in Edo State. People are supporting him mainly and not the party.
SanusiGworo: This is embarrassing as people chant "Obaseki pepper dem"
Yesterday APC miscreants were posting rubbish on nairaland of APC's campaign trail to Esan in Edo. Esan part of Edo state is a PDP stronghold, this is where Tony Anenih comes from.
Watch video of the crowd chanting "Obaseki pepper dem"
This is a daily occurrence na, APC online boys nor wan gree. The day Oshiomole passed through ring road, people were shouting Obaseki 4+4 Torgba. I saw it with my eyes.
Judeerons32: My brother in am from Edo. The moment any writer states a chief who did not want his name mentioned just know the writer is the chief. As for the Ojuromi who was sanctioned by Oshiomhole. He is a very good friend of Ize Iyamu. Even though he was sanctioned for assaulting an apc woman but his support for Poi was part of it. So don't let these writers deceive. Politics and support is not black and white
Go sit down with your lie. Oshiomole is so arrogant. Let he face what he sow.
Andrenalin: This Edo ppl dont value this Man like naija didnt value GEJ then until they lost him. Obaseki that has worked na wa oooo. Go delta state and come back to praise Obaseki. God has really blessed Edo jare....
As a true Edo man, I value Governor Obaseki and his government. I will pay transport fare to my polling unit to go vote for him.
Aflix: Bro, even though I support Obaseki and want him back for 2nd term, I cannot deny the fact that Oshiomole transformed Edo state from the shit hole it was to what it is today. Only few governor can boast of doing what Oshiomole have done, not even Obaseki has done half of what Oshiomole did during his first term.
Transformed Edo State? The reason why people are saying Oshiomole performed is because they were using Igbinedion performance to compare. Ideally, check what comes into the state during his time and check the works done. Oshiomole stoked billions of Edo State money including the ones he borrowed.
Kylekent59: I expected them to be chanting thief thief just like they did to Saraki.
I saw him at ring road that day, people were shouting 4+4 to him He was throwing out #1000 Notes to people, they were rushing it and shouting 4+4 Torgba
Emvico34: Pls am not in support of APC, i hate it with passion. But pls take note of this. Pastor eze iyamu will win the election. I don't know why God chose him but let the will of God be done
Just report that Tinubu Bloc is coming to campaign for one of their own. I also read that the caretaker executives of APC have told Oshiomole to recognize Anselm Ojezua as the APC state executives but he refused. They are not coming for the campaign because that was the condition given to Oshiomole and Ize Iyamu for them to come.
Is buhari or Osinbajo not coming? I heard president buhari have refused to see Ize Iyamu, he has been in Abuja since Friday but president buhari refused to see him. SFG have tried to persuade the president to see Ize Iyamu because if he refused, it will send a wrong signal to Edo electorates. The president still refused.
kahal29: OK.... I was not at ring road but watched it live on Ait. Majority of the market women were all in support of POI. If they were mocked as you said I bet you Ait would have shown it.
Oga, go download when PDP campaign train passed through ring road some days ago and see the difference. This video, it was the APC that went to meet the market women, but for PDP own, it was the market women that came out to hail them.
Great2017: I was at Ring Road today and the APC is completely annihilated in Benin City. Infact, it will take only election rigging for the APC to be resurrected.
Thank God you witnessed what happened to APC today, no market women came out to hail them. People were just mocking them.
Oluwolex2000: The re-election campaigns of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, and his new political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently suffered a major setback, when they were totally disgraced penultimate week outside the Palace of the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II.
The governor’s convoy was blocked. The angry residents numbering hundreds booed and jeered at him and his guests. They called him various derogatory names, particularly “thief." It degenerated into violence, scores were injured and properties vandalised.
That development did not go down well with the governor and the PDP and has generated different reactions from both parties, because of the potential implications it has on the governor’s political fortunes. The direct interpretation of the incident could that he had been rejected by the people and that his defeat is not just imminent, but would be overwhelming.
Not anybody could fathom that level of outrage outside the Benin palace against an incumbent governor and the implications are huge. For one, if it was just the youth, who reacted like that, they had sent a clear signal to the Oba that they weere done with Obaseki.
The reason was simply because in Edo State, the Oba of Benin is well respected in political decisions and a politician, who does not have the backing of the palace would find it very difficult, if not impossible to garner the support of the people.
The PDP claimed that the APC sponsored the attack and that the grand plan was to eliminate the entire opposition leadership, because Obaseki had the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, members of the PDP National Working Commissttee (NWC), Governor Neysome Wike (Rivers State), Governor Ifeanyi Okowo (Delta State), Governor Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto State), Governor Seyi Makinde (Oyo State) and other notable leaders with him.
Earlier, at a press conference, the APC had pointed fingers at Governor Obaseki over the violent incidence at the Oba’s palace. The Vice Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of the APC Campaign Council, Mr. Patrick Obahiagbon, specifically blamed the clash on the PDP.
He alleged that the governor resorted to violence, because the duo of former governor and former National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and business mogul, who his government had been victimising for fear that he was planning to pick the APC governorship ticket, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo.
Obahiagbon stated that after the palace incidence, APC supporters were accosted and attacked on the street of Benin, stressing that it is “unacceptable to us as a party. How long more can we persuade our teeming party loyalists to hold back?”
The former House of Representatives member, who said the opposition PDP unleashed terror on the citizenry by enlisting the support of renowned cultists in Benin, further alleged that Obaseki is working on plans to arrest the duo of Oshiomhole, Okunbo and other APC leaders on the eve of the election for not supporting him. He also claimed that there was a plan to set Okunbo’s farm on fire.
“The PDP and the governor were planning to arrest and detain the former National Chairman of the APC Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on the eve of the election and also set fire on the farm of billionaire businessman, Captain Hosa Okunbo for refusing to back the second-term agenda.
“Obaseki is planning to continue his persecution of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole with trumped-up and inconsequential charges at the eleventh hour of electoral politics. His plan is to arraign Oshiomhole for a probe that has been revealed as nothing but a targeted political witch-hunt and then deny him bail on the eve of election to paralyse the APC.
“He is planning to use COVID-19 as a ruse to neuter grassroots leaders of our party, the APC on the eve of the gubernatorial election by abducting and detaining them in isolation center. This way, disenfranchising them and forestalling the political force they would deliver in pursuant of APC’s victory,” Obahiagbon alleged.
Not unmindful of the attacks on him just on the ground of assumption that he was the preferred candidate for the governorship and his perceived support for the APC candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Okunbo was quick to state that he had no hand in the embarrassment the governor faced at the palace.
He said: “I condemn the booing of the governor and the PDP team, and the reprisal attack. I am particularly pained that some ungodly insinuations in some quarters have linked me with the unfortunate saga.”
But away from all the rhetoric, the governor’s goodwill is fast dwindling among the people and so also is his political fortunes.
In 2016, his cousin, Dr. Don Pedro Obaseki categorically urged the people not to vote for him. He didn’t stop at that, he stepped down his ambition and endorsed Ize-Iyamu of the PDP then on the ground that he was the “best candidate” for the election.
“I will rather support Pastor Ize-Iyamu, who represents the collective aspiration of Edo people than support Godwin Obaseki, who is being promoted by external political and economic investors,” Obaseki stated in 2016.
Talking about making a choice between Ize-Iyamu and Obaseki, his first cousins said: “Osagie is actually an uncle and Godwin is a cousin, so both of them are family. But it is not the family I am looking at because I can no longer wish Edo State based on family filiations; I cannot because someone is my brother because we answered the same name wished away the collective patrimony of the entire Edo nation.
“You don’t need to be told I am a very convinced young man, I have come to praising my conviction even as a young boy, when we were fighting as a CLO Director, running radio Kudirat and in Godwin I would not lie, I see nothing that represents my vision to change Edo State.”
The APC candidate, Ize-Iyamu, also feels there are enough reasons why the people don’t want the governor to have a second term. In a recent interview, he said contrary to claims that Obaseki has been a performing governor, who is hated by a political godfather that is mad at him because he was not allowing the access to the state’s purse, but identified several factors that made the governor ineligible for a second term.
“They say we have a technocrat as a governor. How can you have a governor, who didn’t pass his school certificate? How was he able to enter university with three credits and none of them were English and Maths? He is always talking about godfather. Who is the godfather? This is the governor, who increased security votes of the state from N6bn to N7.5bn. The money goes to him.
The APC governorship hopeful said Governor Obaseki is not getting the people’s support, because he has not made good his campaign promises in the education, security and health sectors, and that despite all accolades he receives for his major achievements in the education sector, Edo Best, he did not employ teachers throughout his first term of office.
While he continues to appeal to his supporters not resort to violence, Ize-Iyamu has repeatedly assured the people of the state that given the opportunity to lead, he would ensure that the people experience economic growth and infrastructure development.
Thus, from the orchestrated show that held outside the palace of the Oba’s place to the much anticipated election of September 19th, it is evident that the battle is already a lost for Obaseki and that indeed, the governor’s defeat would come handy as a critical lesson in poor and vindictive leadership. Importantly, re-electing Obaseki coud mean rewarding treachery, betrayal and ingratitude.
Biliaminu wrote from Kaduna
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Only a fool like the op will believe this. APC campaign train was rejected at ring road today, APC e-rats on Nairaland will not post it. If you have anybody doing business at ring road or was at ring road at about after 3 today will testify to it.
I was at ring road today when APC train campaign, no market women came out to hail them, passerby were mocking them. The day PDP campaign train passed, market women came out to hail them. Those doing business in Ring road can testify.
MinorityOpinion: So buhari killed Nigeria because your bank deduct 50 naira and I can see some children of hate going completely off topic to call buhari names. Person can still go school and still be illiterate
loopman: This current opposition is the worst in the history of Nigeria democracy, no strategy, no focus, just keeps throwing up mundane Issues like school kids.
Is Oshiomhole on the ballot ?
Is Oshiomole not the mouth piece of Ize Iyamu? Was he not the one kneeling down and talking?
Politics › Re: EDO 2020: Obaseki Campaigns At Ward 12, Oredo Local Government by Unigrad: 10:54pm On Aug 15, 2020
