Ex-governor of Edo State Adams Oshiomhole on Monday night claimed Governor Godwin Obaseki was “politically dead”.
Oshiomhole stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today in reaction to his party’s victory at Edo governorship election on September 21.
Asked if he was disturbed by comments trailing the declaration of the APC candidate as the winner of the election, Oshiomhole 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 dead. Now the people have done it. I guest he is politically dead.
“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?”
Oshiomhole defended Governor-elect Monday Okpebholo who has been unavailable for interviews, stating that it was not an issue.
