… assures better days ahead for Nigerians with PDP-led Federal Govt
By Isaac Aimurie and Henry Oqua
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the digital tracking of election results which were electronically transmitted in Osun State last Saturday, was instrumental in no small measure to the triumph of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, at the polls.
Obaseki who returned home from vacation on Tuesday to a carnival-like reception led by his deputy, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, Chairman of the State chapter of the PDP, Tony Aziegbemi, Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Marcus Onobun, said the successful deployment of the Situation Room in Edo State in 2020 equipped him to lead the charge in the Osun Situation Room on election day.
Narrating his role in the Osun election in Government House Benin City, Obaseki said: “When I arrived in Osun, I asked members of our party to show me their Situation Room. On getting to the Situation Room I asked where is your situation? We looked at the result of the last Osun State election in 2018 and we studied it polling unit by polling unit and I realized that their situation was like what we had in Edo. After a thorough scrutiny of the previous election result I saw the tricks (wayo), and we resolved that this time everything must turn around for our good in the PDP.”
He added: “On Saturday as the results were dropping polling unit by polling unit, by 10:15pm we were there looking at them and by 2am they wanted to do what the opposition did to us in Orhionmwon Local Government Area in the last Edo election, but we kept vigil. They were holding on to the result of Ife East Local Government Area which had forty thousand votes, they wanted to change the result but we were confident because we knew the whole result was being monitored from Abuja as well. When the results were released we won. We won because God will always win.”
The Governor assured that a PDP-led federal government would better serve Nigerians as the leading All Progressives congress (APC) cannot solve the economic and other challenges bedeviling the country, and urged all members of the PDP to close ranks and resolve lingering issues within the party.
“A house that is divided will not stand. We must unite PDP across the country so that we will change the government at the Federal level. Our people are suffering too much, the APC-led federal government cannot help us, we know them and we must change this government.”
He assured that he was back from vacation, refreshed and ready to work.
Earlier, the Deputy Governor welcomed his principal back from vacation and commended him for his impactful role in the emergence of the Osun State Governor-elect.
