Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied involvement in any plot to impeach Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
Obaseki on Sunday raised the alarm about the plot and accused his predecessor, Oshiomhole, of complicity.
The Special Adviser on Media Projects to the governor, Crusoe Osagie, had claimed that a recent statement by Oshiomhole on the fate of his principal in the Edo State House of Assembly polls had exposed the insidious plan to impeach Obaseki.
However, Osagie expressed confidence that Edo people, would replicate their support for the for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, defend the governor, as they did in 2020 by massively electing a House controlled by the PDP in the March 11 governorship and State Assembly elections.
“It is also curious that it is Oshiomhole who has come forward with the agenda of the APC and not any of the candidates. One wonders if Oshiomhole will be a member of the Edo State House of Assembly after the polls. This, obviously, points to who and where the instructions will be issued if the party’s candidates are mistakenly elected into the House,” the statement added.
Countering Obaseki’s claims, the Chief Media aide to Oshiomhole, Victor Oshioke, said the governor was scared of the looming consequences of his actions in office.
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He said: “Godwin Obaseki is a corrosive politician whose attitudes are patently leprous in nature. He contaminates and destroys any party, place, or person that he associates with.
“For almost seven years, he has governed Edo State like Herod. Totally insensitive to the aspirations, frustrations, and cries of the people who elected him.
“But on February 25, 2023, Edo people unambiguously rejected him and his PDP faction in the Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives polls. For the first time since the return to democracy in 1999, Edo State PDP failed to win any seat in the national assembly, a direct consequence of Godwin Obaseki’s cantankerous, vicious and reckless use of state power to intimidate, oppress, terrorise and pauperise our people.”