• APC Scribe Warns Against Ethnic Politics
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, Ogbemudia Bassey Osagie, yesterday, cautioned the party in Edo State against giving its guber ticket to money bag, warning to personally hold the party executive members accountable should the primary be skewed in favour of a particular aspirant.
Osagie, who is also a sergeant/detective at the Toronto Police, expressed disappointment that some money bag politicians in the party have allegedly hijacked the party by doling out cash gifts and vehicles to party officials in Edo.
Osagie spoke in Benin City during a meeting with party leaders in Oredo Local Council on his governorship ambition ahead of the party’s primary.
He said that it is unfortunate that money bag politicians have hijacked the party using their wealth to get people to support their guber ambition.
“Even if I have the money, I am not going to use money to influence people to support me. If an aspirant like me is sharing millions of naira to people, you should question my character. Firstly, you should ask, I thought this man is a policeman? Where did he get the money he is sharing? Where did he have the money he is sharing to party and buying vehicles for party officials?
Osagie said the LP must eschew all form of illegality ahead of its primary, disclosing he would not be deterred should the primary not favour, if free and fair.
Similarly, ahead of the governorship election in Edo State, the South South Zonal Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Blessing Agbomhere, has warned against the introduction of ethnic sentiments by aspirants from any of the contending political parties.
In a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje and President Bola Tinubu among others, Agbomhere, who is also a gubernatorial aspirant, lamented the marginalisation of Edo North in the politics of Edo State, maintaining that the party’s gubernatorial ticket should be handed over to an aspirant from that part of the state.
Agbomhere also condemned what he described as a plot to foment crisis in the state by those who he said have tried unsuccessfully to attract the endorsement of former Governor of Edo state, Senator Adams Oshiomhole.
He said: “We will not allow anybody or group of persons, under any guise or tribe, whether from Edo South, North or Central to use the weapon of blackmail to destroy our leaders.”
Agbomhere said he is the only gubernatorial aspirant in the race that has the capacity to continue the developmental strides left behind by the previous administration of Oshiomhole if given opportunity to serve as governor.
He assured all Edo people that If elected governor, Edo State will witness the rekindling of the massive growth and development sparked by Oshiomhole’s administration in a new dimension.
