Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, is in a panic mode over the imminent eclipse of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the scheduled March 11 House of Assembly election in the state.
THE CONCLAVE reports that having lost the National Assembly elections to both the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party (LP), the governor lives with fear of losing the 18 House of Assembly seats.
APC, under the command of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is projected to win all the seats in Edo North while APC and Labour Party are projected to run neck and neck in Edo Crntral and Edo South Senatorial zones for the House of Assembly seats on the zones.
Recall that the APC won the Edo Noth and Edo Central Senatotial seats while the Labour Party won Edo South Senatorial seat in the February 25 poll.
In the House of Representatives poll, the APC took seven seats while Labour took two seats of the nine federal constituencies in the state.
The LP “tsunami” in Edo South and the formidable outing, trailing APC in Edo Central, leaving the PDP behind on a distant third position, has caused a tectonic shift in the political structures in the zones.
The implication of this development for Governor Obaseki is that once his PDP loses out outright completely as it is being feared in the House of Assembly poll, his underbelly would be exposed to the vagaries of political onslaught including possible impeachment.
THE CONCLAVE learnt that scenarios has piled considerable pressures on the governor, who is said to be confused about what yo do.
An unconfirmed report said that the leader of the legacy PDP, Chief Dan Orbih and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole were working in synergy to ensure that the House of Assemby was retrieved from the governor.
The governor had from the outset of his first term refused to inaugurate 14 members of the House whom he believed would impeach and remove him from office if allowed to produce the Speaker.
He had deployed his shenanigans to keep them out of the Assembly for four years while he ran the Assembly with his “ten members” loyal to him.
The fear that Obaseki harbours now is the prospect of the scenario he worked to avert in 2016 now gaining traction.
His fear of impeachment and eventually removal is becoming real as electoral calculations seem to have fallen apart ahead of March 11 poll.
The Legacy PDP and the APC, both of which Obaseki had shown political treachery and ingratitude, see the March 11 as their only opportunity to cage Obaseki and make him pay for his political sins.
The conversation doing th rounds already in Edo State centres on how to bring Obaseki down to his knees between June 2023 when the new House of Assembly would have been inaugurated and November 12, 2024 when his second term would expire.
THE CONCLAVE learnt that the consensus that has already built up in among the political elite whose members had been largely bruised by Obaseki is a recompense via impeachment and removal.
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