Mr. Simon Ebegbulem is the Commissioner for Particular Initiatives in Imo state and was the Chief Press Secretary to the previous Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He spoke shortly after the APC governorship major election in Edo state.
Evaluation of the Edo APC governorship major
It was a really profitable one and we’re glad that at this time, the APC in Edo state now has a candidate for the September 19 governorship election. Prior to now we had plenty of threats and there was stress, notably after the gazette was printed by the state authorities however the get together despatched a really highly effective committee led by distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma, the governor of Imo State who ensured that the first election was effectively organised. Lots of people defied the early morning rain due to the keenness which was a sign that APC remains to be strong in Edo State and we’re very optimistic that APC will retain the state.
Some members who’re nonetheless against the method of the first election
There is no such thing as a division in Edo APC, however we had some individuals who had been determined and had been making an attempt to destroy the get together as a consequence of their private pursuits. These individuals you might be speaking about at the moment are in PDP, the APC in Edo state is one led by Col David Imuse (rtd) who’s acknowledged by the NWC. Immediately, you’ll be able to see that APC is transferring ahead, we’ve a strong candidate who will beat Governor Godwin Obaseki of the PDP on the subsequent normal election.
Waiver for Ize-Iyamu which Obaseki opposed
Obaseki mobilized opposition towards the defection of Ize-Iyamu who was coming into the get together, he made his ward chairman to disclaim that he issued Ize-Iyamu membership card and resisted the waiver granted to him to contest. But, the identical Obaseki went to PDP and in lower than three days he was granted waiver. Immediately, for those who conduct an election hundred occasions in any of the wards on the platform of any get together he has decamped to, one can find out that he can not win.
Oyegun’s place on the disaster
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun is likely one of the elders of this nation that I respect a lot, he has been there earlier than as Nationwide Chairman of APC and it’s humorous to listen to among the issues he says at this time. Many of the issues he says at this time, he could not do them when he was Nationwide Chairman of the get together. He truly created the mess Oshiomhole was making an attempt to clear. Most of those crises they’re speaking about in a number of states had been created by the Oyegun-led NWC.
There was no get together when Oshiomhole got here, Oshiomhole got here to handle the disaster that was created. However for Oshiomhole, much more individuals would have left the APC as on the time Saraki and others left.
He held down plenty of them down and negotiated with them. Have a look at Rivers, the disaster was there earlier than Oshiomhole got here in, the disaster in Imo state APC was there earlier than Oshiomhole got here, the disaster in Zamfara was already there earlier than Oshiomhole got here, it was simply that they now grew to become manifest and escalated as a result of the get together was already going into elections when Oshiomhole got here in and it now regarded as if these crises arose when he was the Nationwide Chairman. That’s not true in any respect.
Oshiomhole inherited all of them and had been managing them. These crises had been created by people as a consequence of their ambitions within the varied states. APC below Oshiomhole was intact other than some few egocentric people who had been already fascinated by 2023 presidential election and began this plot instantly President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in for his second time period.
They do not imply effectively for the get together, they do not imply effectively for Mr. President, they’re those making an attempt to distract the president and Oshiomhole was saying no, we should run the get together based on the structure and be sure that we assist our president to ship what he promised Nigerians.
Hope for Edo election
APC will reclaim Edo state. With the emergence of Ize-Iyamu as our candidate, APC will come collectively within the state, the get together can be united. Simply watch, one can find out that a lot of the native authorities chairmen are with Ize-Iyamu and few weeks to the election, they’ll abandon him (Obaseki). Most of them usually are not able to go to PDP. On the finish of the day, he can be a loner as a result of all these individuals that he’s making an attempt to power into PDP are initially youngsters of Adams Oshiomhole, these are individuals the Comrade groomed through the years politically. Oshiomhole made the APC very sturdy within the South-South and in Edo state and his youngsters are nonetheless right here intact. Even when Oshiomhole is in America and also you conduct an election, his candidate will beat Obaseki, so we’re not scared in any respect.
These near Obaseki however nonetheless claiming to be a part of APC inflicting extra disaster
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Clearly that’s their recreation plan, they deliberate it in a method that a few of them would go and a few would keep and proceed to trigger bother in APC however APC is simply too formidable that they won’t succeed. That was why they’ve instituted a number of courtroom instances each on the state and nationwide degree towards our candidate however they’ll nonetheless fail. Many of the instances they took to courtroom confirmed that they do not even perceive the workings and the structure of our get together however we’re optimistic that the courtroom will interpret to those individuals, the structure of the APC; how one turns into a member, how major elections are performed within the get together. These individuals need to foist their unlawful sample on us however we’re dominated by legal guidelines and we consider that these legal guidelines supersede their private pursuits.
They’re simply there on damaging mission however they’ll fail. They failed in stopping the first election and they’ll additionally fail in all their evil plots to verify we do not have a candidate in Edo state. If not for Comrade Oshiomhole, who’s Godwin Obaseki in politics? Oshiomhole introduced him to authorities to rehabilitate him, his firm was not doing effectively, he was broke, so I’m shocked when he claimed that he sponsored Oshiomhole’s election in 2007.
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