14/06/2024
Edo State Election 2024: Electorate Beware Of Another Deception.
Politics has its unique space and peculiarity amongst many things that shapes a society, but it depends on the players to define their chosen angle and pursue it logically and perhaps objectively. Oftentimes, some politicians with “over sabi” attitude derail from their track and later lay the blame on supporters when the fail, while some justifiably express themselves truly as they are and leave the decision to the electorate.
The wannabe politicians hate to leave the stage when the ovation is loudest and by their error, they sell themselves out of the election and so it is with Dr. Asuelimhen Ighodalo. He is such a dancer who does not know when to leave the dance floor owing to the assumption that he dances better.
Since he became the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP, has engaged himself on an unending “roadshow” that is unusual of him. Before now, it was beneath his dignity to be seen amongst the market women and those who eke a living through thin and thick. He is in the society's “top class” and that is why, he lost touch with his community and refused to imbibe culture and learn the language.
In many of his forced interactions with different groups, discerning minds can attest to the plethora of signs that indicate deception. It is a common understanding that one cannot give what he or she does not have, and truly, he has been able to score high on this - as every of his interventions are bombastic and laced with drama and braggadocio. God forbid he emerges, all his recent “aproko”and friendship he tends to cultivate at this eleventh hour will be another height of “ojoro”.
History, as we know, is the best teacher. Since 2016, Edo state citizens wallow in despondency and deprived of the dividends of democracy. This is simply because the people were carried away with false hope, rumour and heightened propaganda. Again, there is a reenactment of such a trick from another outlandish candidate. Therefore, let us not stumble twice over the same stone because it will become a proverbial disgrace.
Today, with pain and regret, we can now say that Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s interactions, promises and hope akin to what we are seeing today were designed to hoodwink the innocent Edo state citizens. As a reminder, he built castles out of sand and sold it into our minds as bricks, but today, we now know that it was a colossal error to have listened and given him and his cronies the political oxygen to breath.
Now that we know, it will be churlish and asinine to allow the same fate to befall us. The over-bloated speeches and the impression of being an orator or intelligently wired is a mere delusion of grandeur and has no place in the administration of governance.
Vote wisely!
Mallam Omo-Iredia Shihab Osakue writes from Turin, Italy.
