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From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
A coalition, People’s Defender Advocate/civil society practitioners, yesterday, told the governor of the state (Mr. Godwin Obaseki) that it will oppose the importation of any governorship candidates on the people in the forthcoming election in the state.
Convener of the group, Osadolor Ochei said this in Benin while briefing Journalists on the qualities of the would be governor of the state come 2024.
“He must not be an imported governor who has not contributed to the development of Edo state in the time past”, Ochei said.
He said democracy and good governance are the bedrock of meaningful progress of every society and its people, and that the group is here to state its positions and resolves on the political development of the state and to offer the way forward for the advancement of its people.
Ochei said the recent and ongoing unhealthy political developments in the state demands that the group states its position and determination in order to stem the tide and take the state away from an avoidable precipice.
Ochei added that though there is still a government in power in the state and giving the people good governance in the last months of the current government is sacred and should be of great concern to all of them but the raging battle cry mainly by the three senatorial districts of the state -south, central and north respectively, with everyone of them laying claims to the sole governorship seat and even issuing threats in the buildup to the 2024 governorship party primaries and the main election, has remain a great concern to the coalition.
Ochei further added that the bitter and determinant agitations, which tend to be tribal and sectional, continually widen the cracks of disunity even where they did not exist, thus bringing the people of the state on collusion.
The convener of the group maintained that to save the state from snowballing into further anarchy due to the agitation for power shift, it is better for the different parties to jettison zoning in the primaries and main election by throwing the contest wide open for all the aspirants and to avoid tribal, religious and other primitive considerations.
He opined that the governor in the said election, must pass the litmus test of educational qualifications; that is well known and had contributed to the development of his hometown; vast in experience; have verifiable pedigrees of performances in the private and public sectors, as he must not have criminal records.
He also said that the person eyeing the seat of the governor of the state must be a pan-Edo personality, who knows the state and had contributed and must evenly spread the needed development items to the three zones and local government areas of the state.
