Chief Charles Idahosa, a former Commissioner for Information and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, has said Governor Godwin Obaseki will not chicken out from the governorship election despite his disqualification from the primaries by the APC screening committee last week.
Speaking in a chat with A Report Idahosa, who had always said he will dump the APC if Obaseki is denied reelection, said the governor will not take the ‘Ambode option’ as being suggested by some people because Edo is not Lagos.
It will be reviewed that Akinwunmi Ambode, previous Lagos state senator surrendered rout and complimented his rival, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, current legislative leader of Lagos state who was announced champ of the APC governorship essential hung on October 2, 2018.
Ambode, who denied pleas to change devotion to another ideological group to challenge the political race, likewise spoke to all individuals from the APC to stay one family and join behind the up-and-comer of the gathering with the goal that the gathering could keep on pushing this state ahead.
Be that as it may, Idahosa stated, Ambode retired from the race effectively in light of the fact that he doesn’t control the APC structures in Lagos, which as indicated by him, is under the strong hold of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national head of the gathering.
As per him, the situation is distinctive when contrasted with Edo state as Governor Obaseki controls all the gathering’s structures from state official to ward level.
He said that was the reason Adams Oshiomhole, APC National Chairman did everything to ban him from challenging the primaries on the gathering’s foundation.
“We’ve generally said that Edo isn’t Lagos. What occurred for Ambode’s situation was that Ambode depended 100 percent on Tinubu. All the structures of the gathering are in Tinubu’s grasp.
“That was the reason upon the arrival of the essential, the Deputy Governor, SSG every one of them fled from Ambode and he lost woefully.
Be that as it may, in Edo express, the entire structure is heavily influenced by Governor Godwin Obaseki. We control the entire 18 neighborhood governments not at all like Ambode who doesn’t have any control however was hanging tight for Tinubu to thoroughly take care of him.
“We control the official of the gathering and all different mechanical assembly of the gathering. Thus, we are not apprehensive at all in light of the fact that the circumstance in Edo and Lagos are not comparative. That is the reason you see Oshiomhole doing everything to prevent the representative from challenging yet it will come up short,” he said.
