Why PDP lost Edo governorship election – Oshiomhole

Hehehe.....Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has expressed confidence in his incoming successor and governor-elect, Godwin Obaseki.The governor said Obaseki was more competent than him and would bring more developmental projects to the state.The governor explained that the opposition party in the just concluded
governorship election in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party lost because they could not convince the people of the state.He spoke with State House correspondents after All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.He also revealed that his service to the people of the state was the main tactics he engaged to give the APC edge over the PDP that ruled the state for nine years.He said: “if you say he will disappoint me, I am not the state I am only one out of about four million Edo people. So his obligation and his loyalty should be to the people of Edo State.“The oath of office he is going to subscribe to says that he will defend the constitution of Nigeria, he will do everything to uplift the quality of life of Edo people. Nothing in his oath of office will include ‘I shall not betray my predecessor’.“For me, I have presided over Nigeria Labour Congress for eight years and I had a successor, there was no story of me having conflict with my predecessor. Because conflict only arises when you refuse to accept that when your tenure is over, it is over.” He went on: “As for the campaign, and this is the problem, the media picks the negatives from the mouth of those who are the least competent. That I campaigned for him, I was this, I was that.“That is the way it should be. Look at what is going on in the US, is Obama not vigorously campaigning for Clinton? Is Obama’s wife, the First Lady of US, is she not as vigorous perhaps much more than Bill Clinton?“I am a product of struggle as a result of my many years of being exploited fighting the oppressors; I deployed those skills and I defeated them. At a point, they said I should allow the man to talk, did the electorate complain?” He queried.On what he will want to be remembered for after leaving office, he said, “I want to be remembered as a factory worker who worked and laboured as a daily paid worker in the most subordinates post in textile mill, rising to become leader of the textile union and eventually spending eight years as NLC president, then going back home to confront the most feared and vicious godfathers that monopolised Edo state. I fought godfathers, which is essential to make way for liberal democracy”.On the allegations that he rigged the elections, he said, “PDP lost because it could not convince the people of its legacy while in power. We did not rig the poll, else we would not have allowed our party chairman to lose his unit”.