As Edo leaders, patriots in FCT back Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Crisis rock Obaseki’s campaign team.
As the Edo State Governorship elections gather momentum everyday, siblings of the incumbent Governor of the State, Godwin Obaseki, have pledged to work for the emergence of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as Governor of Edo State.
Many other high-profile individuals have also left his camp to support the APC Governorship candidate.
Speaking to news men, Mr Osaro and Victor Obaseki explained that the Governor has consistently closed the door on his family who had been behind him during his electoral campaign in 2016.
Receiving them at his country home, the Governorship candidate of the APC, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, thanked the family for their support.
He said their confidence in him is an affirmation of their will to vote their conscience.
Meanwhile, recently, some top members of Ize Iyamu also threw their weight behind Godwin Obaseki’s governorship ambition.
in another development, Edo Leaders and Patriots in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) endorsed Osagie Ize-Iyamu as their preferred candidate in the September 19 governorship election. President of the group, Hon. Isaac Ehigiator, disclosed this while addressing a press conference on Saturday in Abuja.
Ehigiator said while members of the group worked and lived in the FCT, their hearts remained with Edo and they would not allow distance rob them of the opportunity to participate in all that was happening back home. He said it was against this background that Edo indigenes resident in the FCT decided to participate in the election campaign process throughout the six area councils of the federal capital, for the purpose of mobilising Edo sons and daughters to return home for the election with zeal and vote Osagie Ize-Iyamu
He noted that the group believed Edo deserved better, adding that the task of repositioning Edo State should be holistic and driven with sincerity of purpose, emotional intelligence and respect for the traditional as well as all other leaders involved in the greater Edo project for the good of all.
According to Ehigiator, “Going forward, therefore, I want to affirm on behalf of the committee of Edo Leaders and patriots that the manifesto as presented by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC, as vividly captured in the SIMPLE Agenda programme for the greater Edo project, represents the true desires and aspiration of all Edo sons and daughters irrespective of where they reside anywhere in the world.
“We have, therefore, come to the conclusion that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is the right person to lead Edo State in the next dispensation from November 2020 to November 2023, so that our dear state can take its rightful place in Nigeria.”
Ehigiator disclosed, “That the Committee of Edo leaders and Patriots in FCT does adopt Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and endorses him as preferred candidate for the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State.
“That the committee with other Edo sons and daughters shall undertake visitations to the six area councils to mobilise and present the SIMPLE agenda to Edo people in those areas councils starting from 31st August, 2020 to 15th September, 2020.”
Director-General of Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organisation in Edo South, Hon. Mathew Osagie, said in the last four years, contrary to the media propaganda of Obaseki and his government, a lot was undone in the area of governance and its impact on the people. Osagie added that when the governor was elected in 2016, the expectation was high, but he deviated when he waged war against his own party members.
More twist, scheming and gimmicks will continue to unfold as the whole world watch as Edo people go to the poll in September to choose who will occupy the Edo Government house for the next four years.
Last week, the former National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole was seen moving from street to street campaigning for Pastor Ize Iyamu with a large crowd of supporters.
