By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
BENIN—FORMER Special Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Project Monitoring and Implementation, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, yesterday, said Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was finished politically, adding "nothing can revive PDP in Edo State."
Prof. Ihonvbere, in Benin, yesterday, insisted that the performance of Governor Adams Oshiomhole in the last three and half years was the magic wand that ensured his victory at the poll.
He noted that the results of the election showed that the people rejected PDP, "as a party of wickedness, failure, darkness, led by insensitive people, who do not mean well for the people of Edo State."
"Our victory is 100 percent. The godfather could not find God neither could he find the father. The fixer was thoroughly and mercilessly fixed. He lost his ward, local government area and senatorial district. Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN is on solid ground. It does not need to bother about the future.
"There are vanquished people here in Edo. PDP people have been vanquished and you cannot touch them with a ten-foot pole. You don't say no victor no vanquished. Oshiomhole has to be wary of them. The matter is settled. Oshiomhole is in power and those of us who came to support will ensure that the energy for development does not derail.
"What may come up is what kind of political future Oshiomhole would be looking at after four years. He may decide to say I have done enough, I am popular, called it quit and set up an institute on labour relations and carry out consultancy. He may decide to go for higher office. What will determine the future of Edo State is what will determine the nature of the next presidential election. Adams has nothing to worry about at all."
Prof. Ihonvbere added that Governor Oshiomhole has a duty to handover an ACN that will win the next governorship election 'because he (Oshiomhole) has to lead the campaign.'
Vanguard Nigeria