Edo Election: Obaseki politically dead – Oshiomhole says

Former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has stated that the current Governor, Godwin Obaseki, is “politically dead” following the results of the recently concluded governorship election in the state.

Oshiomhole made this statement during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today while discussing the election outcome.

When questioned about the controversy surrounding the APC candidate’s victory, Oshiomhole dismissed concerns, asserting that the election result was a clear representation of the people’s choice and that Obaseki’s political influence in the state has significantly waned.

He said;

“No, the acting chairman of PDP talked about defending votes with his blood, because Edo people will sacrifice their blood for anybody.

“We subscribe to President Jonathan’s school which says the election of even a president is not worth the blood of any Nigerian. And you have the PDP national chairman who is acting with all the crises around the status talking about bloodbath for election.

“You have Obaseki, I watched him on Channels insisting it was do-or-die. And when you asked him, he said, if they did, then they would be d£ad. Now the people have done it. I guess he is politically d£ad.

“The people have decided that Monday who was elected last year as a senator, has been elected; and now has been declared the governor-elect. They now understand if a man can speak like the King of England, but can’t build classrooms and their children are sitting on the floor, where is the value of the English?

“If you have signed millions of MoUs, brought all manner of consultants, even though you are one of the consultants anyways. The hospital that was built by Governor Oshiomhole you converted it to a private hospital. You ran it by consultants and only the rich can go there. The poor have been forbidden from going there. You demolished the other side of the hospital and replaced it with a museum. You think the poor are stupid?”