Oyegun Blames APC Edo Guber Defeat On Impunity, Democracy Deficit
The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Monday, blamed the party’s loss in the recently concluded Edo2020 election on impunity, recklessness and lack of internal democracy within the party.
“The Edo election was free and fair, besides the June 12 election. No other election has been as free and fair as the Edo election. Edo is the heart beat of the Nigerian state. When elections are free and fair like this, it will reduce the problem of court cases after elections, even if the person is going to court, he will have it at the back of his mind that the election was relatively free and fair.
“What happened in Edo election was as a result of lawlessness, impunity, and lack of internal democracy in the party. If twenty persons say they want to contest for one position, allow them to contest, some may get 10 votes others may get 5 votes, but when you begin to talk to some to step down for others, then the ego in them becomes massive.”
Oyegun said, he did not support the APC candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu in the Edo State election because of his conscience, and the fact that he does not support injustice. “I cannot support injustice in terms of going out to work for injustice. I can’t go out and say vote for what my mind considered as wrong. Normal people should not support what is wrong. Your loyalty should be to what is right. It is a basic thing of conscience. When, you see that the group you belong to is doing the wrong thing it is a matter of principle to do the right thing.”
Commenting on Nigeria at 60 years of independence, he regretted that Nigeria is in this current state. The first Executive Governor of Edo State, said that things were rough and tough for Nigerians, and that there was despondency, hunger, economic deprivation, high level of unemployment in the land, and that the government had failed to successfully convey to the people a picture of a better tomorrow, and that is why it has been so difficult. He lamented that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari had been very unlucky as the country’s earning had been going down since he came into office.
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