The outgoing governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki is evidently furious.
He has openly complained to his aides that he has been left out from the inauguration arrangement of his successor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, who, he insisted, stole the guber mandate.
The inauguration holds on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. On that day, his eight-year administration will come to a terminus. He will lose his immunity and would be liable to prosecution by the anti-graft body, although he had already dared the agency to invite him, saying he would honour the invitation.
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Speaking to selected aides over what he complained as the All Progressives Congress, APC’s plan for the inauguration of Senator Okpebholo on Tuesday, Obaseki was quoted to have said: “They stole the mandate, but we have laws. Somebody has to be sworn in into a government that is already existing. You don’t just come from nowhere and start government. There is a way things are done. Isn’t it?
“Government of Edo State is inaugurating a new governor on Tuesday, but what you are seeing now, all the posters, the Government of Edo State is not involved.
“It’s crazy when people behave the way they are doing as if there are no laws in the country. I just sit down sometimes, and I am wondering, are we okay as a country? We are guided by the Constitution. We are guided by laws, precedence, and procedures.”
“They are doing inauguration and I, as a governor, do not know. I have not even been invited. So, it is as if they are starting a brand new state,” Obaseki said in fury over the plans for the inauguration of Okpebholo.
