APC to Obaseki: You Don't Mean Well For Nigeria.

By Lucky Isibor

The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), described Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State as threat to the nation's democracy over his statement last Monday that Nigeria will break up if the ruling APC wins the 2023 elections.  

The party said by this statement the governor who by his position is the leader in the state has decided to be blowing the ember of divisiveness of the Nigerian nation ahead the 2023 elections.  

This was contained in a press statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Uwadiae-Igbinigie (Esq) and made available to the Newscurve in Benin City.

Governor Godwin Obaseki has said last Monday while inaugurating the Edo State PDP Campaign Management Council that "should APC win and come to power in 2023, this country will break. APC has done much damage to this country. Our debt is growing to N60 trillion every month and yet we continue printing money. They have destroyed this country. APC has threatened the survival and existence of this country.”

The APC in its statement noted that Governor Godwin Obaseki has no regards for governance and accussed him of foisting a beehive of lawlessness and dictatorship on Edo people.

"The Governor has further exposed the reasons why he has no regard for Governance and has foist on Edo people a beehive of lawlessness and dictatorship even though he assumed and attained leadership vide a democratic contestation. Governor Godwin Obaseki claim that Nigerian will break if the APC presidential candidate Senator Asiwaju Bola Tinubu wins the presidential election come 2023 is the most unguided and intellectually bereft statement to have come from any person sitting in the corridor of governance in a democratic Nation like ours (Nigerian).Little did people conclude that Governor Godwin Obaseki lacks the intellectual sagacity and educational behest to enthrone a democratic atmosphere and benevolence in Edo State".

"What temerity and audacity does Governor Godwin Obaseki possesses to speak of a man who transformed and gave Lagos a road map to economic and political posterity in the comity of states despite the proclivity and inclinations of the Olusegun Obasanjo led PDP Federal Government".

"The statement Governor Godwin Obaseki made invoked a dire need for a political and legal examinations of all the none democratic policies that he has bestowed on Edo people from the ceaseless and unending borrowing without any corresponding effect on the economy of Edo State to the monumental destructions of the know legacies of Edo State like the modern library, central hospital, sales of pediatric ward of the central hospital, to the conduct pipe of Edo Best and his primordial sentiments of destruction of private properties and illegal occupation of privately own land without regards to rule of law". 

He said the short sightedness and shallow memories of Governor Godwin Obaseki were further exposed by his Statement, when he venture into history to uncover the fact that in less than three (3) years the same Governor Godwin Obaseki rigorously and without any limit, campaigned for the APC at both the State and federal levels, eulogizing the effect of senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos political template.      

The party further said that the legacies of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos State albeit Nigerian with the moribund  statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki, it will unveiled the hollow knowledge of the Governor of a democratic hallmark in a multi-party democracy where many parties engaged in contestation under a peaceful and enduring atmosphere devoid of rancor and frivolities.

" The statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki has helped to demarket the PDP in Edo state in the mind of Edo citizens who are better enlightened and have unending regard for a united and an indivisible Nigeria because his statement is devoid of the issue based campaign being promoted by the Nigerian people.We the APC therefore as a party call on the federal Government to keep his security apparatus in place and beam the nation security search light and intelligence gathering to Governor Godwin Obaseki and the party he represents, the PDP, as there is the great tendency for him and his co-travellers to cause havoc before, during and after the elections".

"We call on the Edo people and Nigerians at large, to treat the unguided statement of Governor Godwin Obaseki as politically inconsequential and intellectually frailty and exercise their franchise for the great Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC in the Presidential election".