APC, struggling to swallow their crushing defeat in Edo House of Assembly Election

A response to John Mayaki’s diatribe on Obaseki

by Efe Igbinosa

I have to admit that reading John’s essay was both laborious and tortious, because he found it difficult to weave his essay into a readable prose. However, I will attempt briefly to address some of the concorted allegations raised in his essay of misery. This is important, so that the uninformed would not run away with error. I had earlier written a short piece yesterday night, where I clearly stated that APC and its minions are trying to muster everything within them howbeit, unsuccessfully to impugn on the success that governor Obaseki and his candidates recorded in this election. APC were completely unprepared for what they are witnessing now. I sympathize with them though, because it’s difficult to prepare for a victory party, only for Edo people to serve them “breakfast” very early in the day.

Obaseki’s democratic credentials are firmly intact

First, everyone knows that governor Obaseki is one of the most civilized governors in Nigeria. So, anyone who is even remotely capable of imagining that governor Obaseki could interfere with a democratic process like an election, must have his head properly examined.

“Edo no be Lagos” where they reort to killing, maiming, voter suppression, intimidation and all underhand tactics in the book to steal the people’s mandate. This House of Assembly election has now entered into the record books in Edo, as the first since 1999 where more than two political parties have all won seats in the House. The government in power usually clears the entire seats in the state by any means possible. For the first time, three political parties now have seats in the House. Governor Obaseki deserves kudos not sticks for allowing a level playing field, regardless of the senatorial district.

Edo people will not give heed to those that chorus rigging where they lost and hail democracy where they won. Same election! Such double standard!

Easy decision for Edo people

To majority of Edo people, it was easy for them to renew their faith in Obaseki and the PDP. He is the governor that has put their money into the best judicious use. With Governor Obaseki, Edo has now been repositioned to attract some of the best investments into the state, through policies with strong business model, data and analytics that explains how investors will succeed in Edo.

Statisense, a company that makes sense of numbers, convert raw data to insights that are used for better board room decision making, recently ranked Edo as one of the seven states in Nigeria where people have valid group life insurance. This alone shows that life expectancy has peaked in Edo. With him at the saddle, Edo state is now thriving and ticking all the indices for measuring growth.

Our human development index stands at 0.627. The highest in the history of Edo state. He has quietly transformed all the sectors of our economy, which has given him plaudits both home and abroad.

There is no governor who has performed better than Governor Godwin Obaseki and this is what he has been rewarded for in this HOA election and APC and their godfathers hate to hear this.

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Efe Igbinosa, is local boy, writing fom Okada.