APC asks Obaseki to resign over statement on relegation of duty for PDP campaign

From Tony Osauzo, Benin

Chairman, Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC),  Col. David Imuse (retd), yesterday, called on Governor Godwin Obaseki, to resign immediate effect over his recent declaration that governance in the state would be relegated to enable him focus on campaigning for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

“As from today, governance will take back seat while campaign will take front seat until Atiku emerges victorious,” Obaseki said while speaking at the inauguration of the PDP Campaign Council last Friday in Benin.

Imuse, while calling for the governor’s resignation, also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to begin to prepare for a fresh gubernatorial election in the state.

Imuse, who had in the past lamented the collapse of governance in Edo State due to what he claimed to be the rudderless government led by Obaseki,  said his call was in tandem with the fears of many indigenes that governance  had come to a halt in the state.

He noted that even before this public display of cluelessness, Edo people were aware that Governor Obaseki had run out of ideas following his swearing-in for second term.

This he said was because after he lost the original copy of his manifesto labelled, “Make Edo Grounded Again” his co-travellers and business partners have not been unable to get him an alternative.

“The result has been for the governor to stay away from Benin City, the state capital as often as possible, while pretending to be busy searching for investors, signing agreements or MOUs or campaigning in an election in which he is not a candidate.

“The irony of all these is that Mr. Obaseki who was even described as a tenant in the party, and did not attend the embattled PDP presidential primary with a single delegate is biting more than he can chew. He was a loner who entered the Guinness Book of world records as the first elected public official to attend his political party presidential primaries without a delegate.

“Even the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku, is busy attending to his numerous investments in Dubai and France while other bona fide PDP governors like the chairman and director-general of the Campaign Council respectively, Mr Udom Emmanuel and Aminu Tambuwal are still doing their jobs.”