Edo Elections: Governor Obaseki’s Leadership Will End Soon – Tinubu Predicts
Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has predicted that the people of Edo State would end the leadership of Governor Godwin Obaseki, through the ballot at the forthcoming election.
“Governor Obaseki’s woeful leadership of Edo State will hopefully be brought to an end soon by the very people whose rights he has so carelessly trampled upon,” Tinubu tweeted on Friday.
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The national leader of the All Progressive Congress, further alleged that Obaseki had violated the rights of his people, in so many ways.
He claimed that Obaseki had misappropriated public funds meant for his people, and as such does not deserve a second term in office.
” In effect, the man has spent state funds to thwart the very apparatus of the state government he was sworn to uphold; he has squandered public money to defeat the very will of the public. This is tragic beyond words.
“The rule of law and preservation of democracy is too important to sacrifice at the altar of any one man’s ambition,” he argued.
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Tinubu also knocked the governor for the rifts that occured at the state house of Assembly, adding that that was proof that power at all cost was his motive.
His tweet partly reads:
“The recent actions of the Governor of Edo State represent the gravest possible assault on constitutional democracy and the rule of law and escalation of violence and tension in the state he purports to govern.
“First, he sponsors hoodlums to deface, indeed destroy, parts of the House of Assembly Building in Benin, feigning the building is undergoing renovation.
“Then, he imports sand and gravels to prevent access to the assembly complex.”
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On his part, Governor, Obaseki, in a state broadcast, described Thursday’s invasion of the state’s House of Assembly by policemen as an attempted coup d’état.
Obaseki maintained that he would defend democracy irrespective of those that wants to demean it.
“Any person or group of persons who set out to test our will in this regard will meet with the full wrath of the law.
“These events portend grave danger to the safety and security of our polity.
“It had all the hallmarks of an attempted coup d’état.
“The people of Edo State rose as one to prevent the desecration of our democracy.
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“It is, however, worrisome that certain persons are willing to plunge the society into avoidable anarchy and conflict just to satisfy their illegitimate objectives,” he said.
