The Governor stated this
while addressing party members during the Edo South Senatorial rally of the APC
in Benin City, the State capital.
Edo State Governor, Mr.
Godwin Obaseki, has hailed the ruling of an Abuja High Court which bars Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole, from parading himself as National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Obaseki, who has been at
daggers drawn with Oshiomhole over the soul of the party in Edo State described
the ruling as God’s plan and a right decision for the party which calls for a
thanksgiving to celebrate the it.
He said: “When we planned
this meeting last week to meet with all our executives, we did not know that
God has plan for us today.
“No man is God. God is God.
No man can play God. With what God has done today, what we should do now is to
just thank him.
“The meaning of what
happened today is that peace has now finally come to our party. The purpose of
God for Nigeria in our party will now be fulfilled.
“My problem with Comrade
Oshiomhole is that when people started saying that they were Edo Peoples Movement
(EPM), I called him and urged him to denounce them.
“I told him to come out and
say something. I told him ‘Comrade, denounce them, you are the national
chairman; disassociate yourself from these people that are destroying our
party.’ Up till today, he did not.”
Obaseki, however, said that
the decision of the court barring Oshiomhole from parading himself as national
chairman of the APC did not make him a happy man.
“The court has taken the
right decision today, but it does not make me a happy person because it would
not have come to this.
“So, my message today is,
when a child puts his hands in faeces, you do not cut off that hand, you take
that hand and wash it.
“And for those our members
who have been misled, we cannot practice our democracy the way it was in 1983,”
the Governor said.
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