Why I Want To Be Edo Governor, APC’s Obaseki

Godwin Obaseki, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Edo State Governorship election, has said he is not longing to get into power for personal reasons, but to serve humanity.

Obaseki made the statement yesterday at the birthday ceremony of the Senior Pastor of Royal World Ministry, Benin, Pastor Rex Omosefe. He said;

“This is the primary reason I am in the race to be governor today –  to use everything that God has given me: my time, creativity, vast network and energy, to improve the lives of our people and to better our state.

“I am offering myself not for personal gains – because I have been richly blessed by God – but out of a deep sense of duty to God and a genuine desire to serve the people of Edo State.”
It will be recalled that Obaseki had been accused of longing to get into power for his personal interest.

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Oshiomhole Comes For Wike Again, Says I Am The Boss, Learn How To Talk To Me

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday threw another jab at Governor  Nyesom Wike of River State, asking him to face governance in his state and pay the salaries of workers, instead of squandering the peoples’ slim resources on an election the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is bound to lose.

Governor Oshiomhole’s attack on Wike is the latest in the exchange of brickbats between the governors ahead of the September 28 governorship election in the state.

Oshiomhole said it was laughable for Governor Wike to have some level of effrontery to talk about governance when he (Wike) has been unable to pay the state’s workers’ salaries for several months.

He urged Governor Wike to learn how to talk him, “that is performing and up-to-date with payment of salaries and not one, whose noise alone can cause further pollution in a Rivers environment that was already degraded.”

Oshiomhole also advised Wike to spend the money he planned to spend for the PDP in Edo State to pay the backlog of salaries owed civil servants in River State.

Speaking through the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Kassim Afegbua, Oshiomhole stated that there was no reason why Governor Wike would waste the people’s resources on Edo election out of sheer desperation to acquire regional powers.

According to him, “In the circle of governance, where men are truly called men, someone like Governor Wike cannot muster any courage to be called a man when he has continuously held Rivers workers in scorn without paying them their due salaries and emoluments.

“Even though Edo State is not as economically viable as Rivers State, we do not only pay our workers salaries, we have since increased our workers minimum wages from N18,000 to N25,000.

“That this salary increase is happening at a time when Governor Wike is lamenting over paucity of funds should explain in greater details our uncommon creativity and prudent management of resources.

“The last time we visited Rivers State, we were appalled by the plights of Rivers workers whose lamentations Governor Wike has consistently ignored. Our piece of advice to him as a younger brother was to properly guide him so he doesn’t go astray by the temptations of an election that his party is bound to lose.

“Rather than waste Rivers people’s money, keep Rivers people’s money for them. He should be reminded that Edo voters are not gullible like voters elsewhere and their level of sophistication would make the September 28th election a smooth sail for the All Progressives Congress. It is our responsibility to caution Governor Wike before he exports his gangsterism to Edo State.”

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BREAKING News: INEC Releases Official Statement on Saturday's Edo State Guber Election

INEC has disclosed that it had reached not less than 97% level of preparation for the conduct of Saturday's gubernatorial election in Edo State, stating that there's no going back despite security warning.

 

In a disclosure made on its Twitter page, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained why it is brushing aside security advisory from the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Security Service (DSS), to continue with Saturday’s Edo governorship election.

 

Below is INEC's official statement regarding Saturday's election in Edo state;

 

INEC TO GO AHEAD WITH CONDUCT OF EDO GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

 

After carefully weighing all the consequences and parameters of postponing the EDO governorship election as advised yesterday by spokespersons of the Police and Directorate of State Security (DSS), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to go ahead with the conduct of the election as scheduled for Saturday, 10th September 2016.

 

Addressing press men at the Edo State office of the Commission this afternoon, the National Commissioner in charge of Voter Education and Publicity Committee of INEC, Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, who expressed the determination of the Commission to go ahead with the election disclosed that as at yesterday, the Commission had reached not less than ninety seven per cent level of preparation for the conduct of the election.

 

Except the actual conduct of the election, he explained that the Commission had scrupulously implemented all the items listed in the Timetable And Schedule of Activities for the EDO governorship election which it issued in March this year.

 

Prince Soyebi stressed that the Commission would not be teleguided and that it would not do anything that would mortgage Nigeria’s democracy.

 

He further emphasized that the Commission robustly considered the implications of demobilizing and arrived at the fact that it was more expensive to do so

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