The Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, said that former Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole’s recent remarks about Governor Godwin Obaseki’s prospects in the Edo State House of Assembly elections reveal an “insidious plan” to remove Obaseki through impeachment. In a Sunday statement, Osagie expressed confidence that, just as Edo residents rallied behind the governor in 2020 despite Oshiomhole’s intimidation, they will again defend him at the polls on Saturday, 11 March. He urged voters to support the Peoples Democratic Party in large numbers and to elect a House of Assembly controlled by the PDP, noting that “Obaseki has never placed his confidence in any man or godfather. He has placed his confidence in God and the people.”
Victor Oshioke, chief media aide to Oshiomhole, offered a starkly different view, accusing Obaseki of being “a corrosive politician” whose behavior is “patently leprous.” He claimed the governor has “contaminated and destroyed any party, place, or person that he associates with” and has governed Edo State “like Herod,” ignoring the aspirations and frustrations of the electorate. Oshioke pointed to the 25 February 2023 elections, when Edo voters rejected Obaseki and his PDP faction in the presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives races, resulting in the PDP failing to win any national‑assembly seats for the first time since 1999. He attributed this outcome to Obaseki’s “cantankerous, vicious and reckless” use of state power to intimidate, oppress, terrorise, and impoverish the people. Concluding, Oshioke emphasized that no one is a god, noting that Oshiomhole does not claim divine powers and therefore cannot decide who becomes a member of the House of Assembly; that decision rests with the electorate.
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