{"id":73330,"date":"2020-05-10T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=73330"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:00:57","slug":"of-obaseki-and-barrabas-why-ize-iyamu-remains-the-best-candidate-for-edo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/of-obaseki-and-barrabas-why-ize-iyamu-remains-the-best-candidate-for-edo-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Obaseki and Barrabas: Why Ize-Iyamu remains the best candidate for Edo 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Dr. Eki Iguomoson (PhD)<\/p>\n

The article from Paul Ohonbamu, Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s Communication
\nCommissioner turned propagandist in the fashion of the infamous Joseph
\nGoebbels of Nazi Germany, is empty just as he is himself. After near
\nfour years of complete silence and irrelevance, Mr. Paul Ohonbamu has
\nonly remembered his writing skills now because of the dawning
\nrealization that the days of his current master, Governor Godwin
\nObaseki, and other leeches feeding on the resources of Edo State are
\nnumbered.<\/p>\n

Using flowery words, he tried to manipulate obvious facts and turn logic
\non its head using the Biblical analogy of Barabbas. But to the
\ndiscerning, the actual Barabbas in Edo State today is just one
\nindividual and his name is Godwin Obaseki.<\/p>\n

My choice for Governor, and that of the majority of Edo people, remains
\nOsagie Ize-Iyamu. The reason is simple, as the agenda he plans to
\nexecute when he becomes Governor.<\/p>\n

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, by the virtue of my close association with him
\nover the years, has distinguished himself to me as a better manager of
\nmen and resources than the embattled Godwin Obaseki who is
\nunquestionably a bandit as he robs the meager resources of Edo State
\nwithout question and without accountability.<\/p>\n

Osagie Ize-Iyamu is also my pick of the bunch because others, in my
\nview, lack the spread of followership to deliver the state to the APC in
\nthe governorship election slated for September this year.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, some persons, oftentimes, rely on second-hand information to
\nget a grasp of political happenings, and as such may be considered to
\nhave limited understanding. But the democratization of information, made
\npossible by the internet and its wide adoption, has made it easier for
\nus to follow events, sometimes in real-time, and assess the quality of
\nleadership offered to our people.<\/p>\n

To this end, and without any intention to personally attack anyone, I
\nmake bold to say that Edo State is totally misgoverned. I can spend
\npages to illustrate this point but for the sake of brevity and time, I
\nwill highlight the relevant points.<\/p>\n

Osagie Ize-Iyamu will make a great Governor because he has both a sense
\nof legacy and self-restraint for the reasons I will illustrate below.<\/p>\n

Osagie\u00a0 Ize-Iyamu was born and has been bred in Benin city. He grew up
\nand acquired his education in Benin. He’s from a traditional Benin
\nfamily and fully recognizes the traditional restraints expected of
\nleaders put in charge of the people. His pedigree is noble. His great
\ngrandfather, grandfather, father, uncles and other members of his family
\nhave all held exalted traditional chieftaincy titles; even the Iyase
\nposition, the highest chieftaincy position in the Benin Kingdom. His
\nopponents including Mr. Godwin Obaseki, are not of this noble
\nbackground.<\/p>\n

Although Godwin Obaseki’s great grandfather was Iyase himself, his was
\nan ignoble service well known to the Benin people. He betrayed the
\nObaship institution, and by extension, the Benin nation. But for the
\ntimely intervention of some courageous chiefs, Agho Obaseki wanted to be
\nand was almost forcefully made the Oba of Benin against the Benin custom
\nand tradition. Agho Obaseki was Godwin Obaseki’s great grandfather.
\nOther than this, Godwin Obaseki’s grandfather and his father were never
\nnobles. They were not steeped in Benin traditional mores including that
\nof traditional restraints of the leader like Osagie Ize-Iyamu down to
\nhis own father Chief Osayande Ize-Iyamu, who was a popular Esogban
\n(Idionwere) of Benin Kingdom.<\/p>\n

No wonder in his nearly four years sojourn as Governor, Godwin Obaseki
\nhas been reckless with state funds, reckless with accountability,
\nreckless in the way he relates with the Edo people, treating them as
\ncaptured people. The result is that there’s absolutely no clear signs of
\ncoordinated governance except obvious abuse of power! The few roads
\ntarred were done without tender.<\/p>\n

So, no one knows how the contracts were awarded. The required
\ngovernment\/official procedures are breached with reckless abandon. The
\nonly thing consistent is the recklessness of Governor Obaseki. He seems
\nnot to care what happens after he leaves office. He probably believes he
\ncan “bribe” his way out of prosecution by the anti-corruption agencies
\nwith the huge amount of state funds he has stolen.<\/p>\n

In sharp contrast to Obaseki\u2019s lack of direction, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has a
\nplan to govern Edo State. He has had it for years. It’s well articulated
\nin a document published in 2016 known as the SIMPLE agenda. That’s the
\nacronym for the six-bullet points of his plan. I\u2019m aware that this
\ndocument has been updated to guide him when he’s elected Governor in
\nSeptember and assumes office as Governor in November 2020.<\/p>\n

Osagie Ize-Iyamu has a great and uncommon ability of spotting talents
\nwho can join him in governing the state, based on their proven merit and
\ncapabilities.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the lies told by Paul Ohunbamu, Osagie Ize-Iyamu is a
\ndarling of the vast majority of the Edo people cutting across the entire
\nsenatorial districts of South, Central and North of Edo State. This is
\nwhy he has remained the single most central issue in Edo State politics
\nsince 2007 when he formed the Grace Group political organization or even
\nearlier. That’s the group with which Comrade Adams Oshiomhole ran for
\nGovernor of Edo State and won. In turn, Governor Oshiomhole used
\nelements of the same platform to bring Godwin Obaseki from obscurity to
\nrun as Governor and emerged even as he actually lost that election to
\nOsagie Ize-Iyamu, but was returned by INEC through questionable means.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, because of our state of electoral jurisprudence, the
\nfraud Obaseki committed to get himself announced as the winner in that
\nelection of September 2016 was judicially upheld! However, those who
\njoined Obaseki to commit that act of electoral robbery are confessing
\ntoday.<\/p>\n

The good people of Edo State are yearning for Osagie Ize-Iyamu to be
\nGovernor because he has been with them all his life without blemish,
\ncompared with Godwin Obaseki who they barely know, but for his name
\nrecognition as an Obaseki. Godwin Obaseki had not been in the state
\nsince leaving after graduating from the University of Ibadan in 1979. He
\nhad spent most of his years in Lagos, before coming to Benin to join the
\nOshiomhole government in 2009, upon the collapse of his private business
\nin Lagos.<\/p>\n

In effect, Godwin Obaseki is a failed businessman who was rehabilitated
\nby Oshiomhole with government appointment, and subsequent sponsorship as
\nGovernor. That appointment is the only real credential he can boast of
\nwithout much controversy. His education in the University of Ibadan,
\nespecially starting from how he gained admission with only 3 credits
\nwithout a credit pass in English and Mathematics, is still being
\ninvestigated.<\/p>\n

From the records in UI, Godwin Obaseki has no other WAEC result at
\nOrdinary Level than the 3 credit passes obtained from Eghosa Grammar
\nSchool in June, 1973. Godwin Obaseki has never told the world that he
\nobtained WAEC Advanced Level Certificate from anywhere. How then did he
\ngain admission into the University of Ibadan to study for three years
\nfrom 1976-1979, for a degree in Classical Studies?<\/p>\n

In his affidavits sworn to at the courts, he has never claimed to have
\nAL Certificate, even as he was required to disclose all certificates
\nobtained as part of the forms he filled while contesting the
\nGubernatorial election of 2016. A suit that was filed against him to
\ndisqualify him for these anomalies could not be concluded before that
\nelection. The issues are still pending.<\/p>\n

So, what you have in Mr. Godwin Obaseki is a failed businessman with a
\nquestionable past, and an incumbent Governor who’s reckless with state
\nfunds, without anything tangible to show for four years of governorship.
\nThat’s why Mr. Paul Ohunbamu could not point out any meaningful project,
\nor programs being administered by the state government under the Obaseki
\nadministration.<\/p>\n

All Mr. Ohunbamu succeeded in doing is to make meaningless references to
\nunrelated, unoriginal quotations, as infants just learning History,
\nLiterature and Bible Studies do. None of those quotations explains why
\nGodwin Obaseki’s bid for Governorship is facing serious challenges, with
\nmany of those who supported him in 2016 have all abandoned him today.<\/p>\n

His claims that they want him to share state funds with him, have since
\nfallen to discredit, because he has no single proof to justify the naked
\nlie. That incredible claim actually points to the reality that Godwin
\nObaseki has no regard for government financial procedures; for if he
\ndoes, he would know that every single expenditure of government is
\nexpected to be accounted for. So, how would people he accused, many of
\nwhom have held high government positions, expect him to dish out state
\nfunds to them just like that?<\/p>\n

There are many other reasons why Osagie Ize-Iyamu should be preferred to
\nGodwin Obaseki as Governor – however, what I have set out above is just
\na snippet. I will do my best to further this discussion.<\/p>\n

Dr. Eki Iguomoson (PhD) sent in this piece from Edo State.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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