sosmoney:



APC the fraud party. My dear country will understand when you buy a bag of rice for #50k. Dollar is now #475

And so? What dollars are you and your clan generating for the nation? Do you expect dollars to just fall from the sky? What electricity supply and infrastructure are you adding to, or preventing from being sabotaged? What food are you producing that you can't sell and take advantage of the current situation over? What is your job as a meer economic saboteur and supporter of looters of our common patrimony that could have been used to provide you and your children with a secure environment, infrastructure, education and health care, to mention but a few?

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Osho baba why i dey with you,
1,To a good extent EDO masses know that you worked.
2,The masses know you are NOT brutal and wicked like the other politicians.
3,The masses still prefer you far far than the obvious looters.
4,Grassroot still know you are with them through tick and thin.
5,Your mouth na razor!!!etc
Even your WIFE don see what you are capable of in politics and outside and she is beginning to show to all that she loves/admire you. ;Dbut i dont know about inside you need score 1 goal make we take know nah

kahal29:
The outcome of the Edo State governorship election has exposed the weakness of some bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hitherto seen as kingmakers, writes...

Yesterday’s victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Edo State governorship election, is likely to mark the retirement of some political godfathers in the “Heartbeat State” by a new power bloc led by the outgoing governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The godfathers, mostly of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and who hitherto called the shots, rating ahead of the poll had presented them as men who could turn the table against the ruling party.

They include former chairman of PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih; business mogul and the Esama of Benin Kingdom, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion; his son and former governor, Lucky; former Foreign Affairs minister, Chief Tom Ikimi; former Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen; former Chief of Staff to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiadome; media mogul, Chief Raymond Dokpesi and Senator Odion Ugbesia.

The party bigwigs had during the campaigns boasted that they will cut Oshiomhole, his anointed successor and APC to size. But in a twist of fate, Oshiomhole, like the Biblical David in the David and Goliath battle, led his party to trounced his PDP rivals for the third time – 2008 (through the court), 2012 and 2016 and thereby confirmed his preelection position that the political godfathers have outlived their relevance in Edo State politics.

Anenih popularly called “Mr. Fix It,” had boasted before the election that the PDP will emerge tops. He not only predicted victory for his party but assured its supporters that PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu will have an easy ride because his rival lacks the capacity to be governor. But with the defeat, the former Minister of Works and leader of the PDP in Edo State was forced to swallow his words and justifies appeal on the self-acclaimed godfather ahead of the poll to rather dwell more on national politics and play the role of an elder statesman, than take the captainship band of domestic politics.

In fact, some political analysts had advised him to take a final bow from an indulgence that gave him fame having stepped down as PDP BoT chairman after the 2015 elections but he shunned the counsel, insisting that he still has what it takes to turn the table against Oshiomhole. Another godfather who is likely to join Anenih on the retirement train is the Esama of Benin, Chief Igbinedion, and whose son, Lucky, ruled the state between 1999 and 2007.

Perhaps, the people have not forgotten his son’s dismal performance in the eight years he held sway as governor of Edo State. For Igbinedion junior, the loss is a set back to his bid to re-launch a political career that has been on sabbatical after his ordeal in the hands of the anti-graft agencies upon leaving office as governor in 2007. He had boasted that Oshiomhole’s successor will emerge from his political family. Ize-Iyamu, the PDP candidate is his long term political ally, having served as his personal assistant when he was the chairman of Oredo Local Government Area, Chief of Staff as governor and later Secretary to the State Government (SSG).

Ikimi also joins the train despite his political sagacity. His case is made worse by the fact that he was among those who midwifed the victorious party – APC. He had hoped to lead the party to the 2015 elections as national chairman but the emergence of his kinsman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at the party’s national put paid to his ambition as well as forced him to quit the party. While the godfathers are grieving their loss, a jubilant Oshiomhole declared that he has demystified them and dismantled their rigging machinery as well.

His words: “Over the last eight years, we have tried to orientate our people not just the voters but politicians that the season of election rigging, where one or two godfathers write the results is over and we were committed to dismantling the rigging machine.

“We have a rerun in 2012 with all the godfathers on one side and new forces of change on my side, I won in all the 18 local government areas. Our people have spoken loud and clear that they believe in democracy, they just don’t want to be beneficiaries, they want to be the drivers of the process. This was showed by the way they conducted themselves on election day.

“It is outstanding and remarkable that tensed as the election was with all the predictions, the APC won 15 out of the 18 local government areas decisively.

Those who were loudest in making noise have been revealed where they stand in relation with Edo people.

"We have humbled Chief Tom Ikimi even in the local government he claimed to have created. We defeated Chief Raymond Dokpesi in his polling unit, his ward and his local government.

In Okada, the political family that has boasted that they will continue to govern this state and even compelled the state to adopt them as the queen of England whose birthday must be celebrated was rejected.

“In Esan land, the senatorial zone of the PDP godfather, we won two out of the five local governments. We gave him a fight that he managed to escape. He used the factor of his age to play on the emotion of the people. It is a victory for the people of the state. Edo people are now proud they can now determine who rules them and no one godfathers can choose a leader for them.”


https://newtelegraphonline.com/oshiomhole-retires-godfathers/

Congarat to Apc,oshiobaba,obaseki & d gud pple of edo state!uwaedo!condolence 2 aninni,ikimi & poi!

is time 4 pa aninni 2 take a shameful bow permanently.

dejavubobo1:
it just a birth of a new godfather.. We keep moving in circles in this country

next political office holders must seek support from oko-lara.
Naija I hail thee

You said it best. Just the creation of a new godfather. But it's better APC won though.

LorDBolton:


Oga gej's hands were tied believe it or not.

Until u hold office (even in ur family) u will understand what 'pressure' means

Usa, Britain and Europe were already involved

Do u think gej wants to share cell with gbagbo, taylor and co.?

The whole north and south west were against him if the whole south supported him maybe he could have done small wayo wayo.

ok then. I hope the same USA, Britain And Europe are getting set to 'Help' come 2019. We are tired AGAIN!

duwdu:


Ol'Boy, You and the few minority online noisemakers and chest beaters of your type are alone in your self-inflicted misery, if you think GEJ did not manipulate whatever he could get away with when the political and moral tide was widely and clearly against him both at home and abroad. I can reasonably assure you that if GEJ had tried to further scuttle the political train greatly against him at the time, he would have received no less than the Gbagbo treatment. In that sense, GEJ was actually wiser than your class of thinkers, including his wife - at that time, anyways.

And, what mess? Is it not insane to keep blowing resource pipelines and destroying infrastructure and your enviroment and source of food on one hand, upon all the immediate massive plundering of our common patrimony, coupled with further decline in all sorts of revenue - including from oil - and still expect to have been having a normal economy and stipends? Is that not madness of the mind?

Some of you are just mudderously imbibed with morbid hatred for anything not "invented" in your area of influence. God should please save you!

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Just make sure your dullard-in-chief does not rig the elections come 2019. Then you will know who the few online noicemakers are. Mtchewww.

egobetatoday:


ok then. I hope the same USA, Britain And Europe are getting set to 'Help' come 2019. We are tired AGAIN!

Sure bro... even pmb can't rig 2019. And he has already started making mistakes by his actions against tinubu since he assumed office (via the NASS Election scam that put his people there and the straw that broke the camels back was this ondo ish in tinubu backyard)

Already the ss/se bloc is anti buhari now the sw already being lost?

Don't worry 2019 cannot be rigged