Gubernatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has declared that he will defeat whoever the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presents in the forthcoming September 10 gubernatorial polls in Edo State.
In a chat with Thisday, Obaseki said during he primaries, he toured all the 192 wards in the state and clearly, he can see that the PDP has no message and they are not on ground. He added that it would be a miracle for the PDP to win in Edo State.
“During the primaries I went through the 192 wards. The campaigns for the main election has been more detailed, I went to communities I did not have the opportunity of visiting during the primaries and it has been quite revealing. Firstly, it would be a miracle for PDP to win in Edo state because as we have gone round the communities we just don’t see their presence, we don’t hear their message, probably because they don’t have any message. In every community we have gone to we can point to a project that the APC government has undertaken and that explains the popularity of the party. The issue in most communities is that they want more and it is easy to argue that given our track record of performance they should allow us continue to provide for them unlike that of PDP, their track record was so bad that in their ten years nothing to show the people of the state”, Obaseki said.
Obaseki also accused the PDP of importing outsiders into the state to enable them manipulate the outcome of the polls.
“We also have evidence of the people they brought in to register during their Voters Registration Exercise who do not even come from those communities. You could see from the incident at llushi, where they attacked my campaign train, you could see due to the frustration and fear that they are going to lose the election some of their supporters are even acting the violent script even before the day.
“They cannot even hold it back. They unleashed mayhem on our supporters which was totally uncalled for and wicked. They destroyed our vehicles and people were beaten up. So they are masters of propaganda, while we are campaigning the PDP leadership are using the money they stole for propaganda, so their propaganda machine is well oiled, misinforming people, most of their proposed theory is to deceive people, giving them false impression that they are winning. No concrete message for the people, they are selling a message about the future when they destroyed the past”, he said.
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