Benin City, Edo state – Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, said Governor Godwin Obaseki is politically dead following the emergence of APCâs Senator Monday Okpebholo as Edo state governor-elect.
TimesNow.com.ng recalls that Okpebholo was declared the winner after he garnered 291,267 votes to defeat his closest rival, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who secured 247,374 votes, while Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party received 22,761 votes.
Oshiomhole said the outcome of the Saturday, September 21 governorship election represented the will of the Edo people.
The former Edo state governor said Obaseki’s do-or-die affair threat did not stop the people from voting for the APC candidate.
He stated this while speaking during an interview on Channels TVâs Politics Today on Monday, September 23.
Reacting to Obasekiâs do-or-die affairs, he said the APC subscribed to former President Goodluck Jonathanâs saying that no election is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
TimesNow.com.ng earlier reported that Oshiomhole disclosed the strategy used by the Edo state governor-elect, Okpebholo to emerge winner.
Oshiomhole said Okpebholo rejected television interviews but engaged and communicated with the electorates.
The former Edo governor said Okpebholo spoke with the people to show them he was different from the present government in the state.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
