The Chairman, Ocean Marine Solution, Capt. Hosa Okunbo, says his erstwhile close pal, Godwin Obaseki does not deserve a second term in office as Edo State Governor.
Speaking in Abuja over the weekend, the politician said Obaseki lacked the attributes of a good leader.
Okunbo said that this necessitated his decision to pitch his tent with the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the September 19 gubernatorial election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
“I still consider Godwin my brother, but I don’t consider him a leader because he doesn’t have the attributes of a good leader.
“A governor that could not manage 24 House of Assembly members from his own party – they were not in opposition, all APC. Some of us worked to make that possible for him so he could have a smooth ride but he squandered the chance.
“It’s only unfortunate that Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who also contested against him in 2016, is out there and I am supporting him by default and of course, I want a better Edo State and that’s all I can say,” Okunbo.
He accused the governor of below-par performance in his first term, noting that the governor was only good at presenting ideas but not at implementing them.
“If Godwin presents to you his plans for Edo State on PowerPoint, you will kiss his feet. It is like in the Bible when the devil said take all these and bow before me and Jesus said, ‘Get thee behind me Satan’. And as we progressed, all those packages that he presented, none was done.
“I learnt most of them are all on paper and they continue to be on paper and consultancy services attached to most of them. Of course, as we speak, most of those projects are not on the ground and as for me, I can’t be deceived. Some can be deceived, but I cannot.
“A situation, where you have 600 children packed in a room and selling propaganda on social media of projects that are not there? It is appalling.
“It is the future of our children that is at stake; the liberation of our state from someone who thinks he is an emperor in this modern day is at stake.”
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