A Netherlands based security expert and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Martins Sadoh, has called for merit and capacity as the parameters to determine who should succeed Governor Godwin Obaseki come 2924.
Sadoh reiterated that the ethnicity of the would-be governor should be relegated to the background as Edo Stated required someone with all requisite experience and exposure to take the state to the next level.
He therefore appealed to the people of the state to entrust the governance of the state to someone who would understand the yearnings and the aspirations of the people.
Sadoh who issued a statement in Benin on Sunday, appealed to the people to avoid the mistake of the past where an unknown person was brought to superintend over the affairs of the state.
The APC chieftain said that the people must be allowed to decide who would rule them in 2024 irrespective of the person’s ethnicity.
He said those coming with the issue of ethnic narrative were out to sacrifice competence on the alter of tribal sentiment.
Sadoh explained that there was no time that the issue of zoning the governorship seat between the three senatorial districts of the state was ever discussed nor agreed.
“For the avoidance of doubt, since 1999, aspirants from the three senatorial districts have always participated in the primaries of their political parties.
“You will recalled that in 2007 when Osunbor eventually emerged as the governor, we had aspirants from Edo South, Edo Central and Edo North participating in the primaries of AC and PDP.
“Same was the case in PDP in 2012 while the ACN only adopted Adams Oshiomhole, who was then the incumbent governor as their candidate.
“Have we also forgotten what played out in both APC and PDP primaries for the 2016 governorship poll? Even though Obaseki was eventually produced as the governor, both parties had aspirants from the three zones participating in the primaries,” he stated.
Sadoh who is an ardent supporter of the immediate past Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mr Clem Agba, said the state must put its best hands forward if the hope to improve on its economy and infrastructural fortune is to be guaranteed.
According to him, “Personally and am sure to many other Edolites, Agba seems to be the right person, armed with the requisite tool to led
the State from the present state she found herself.
“Agba is indeed a technocrat who is not only at home with the people from the three senatorial districts, he is also well suited for the job haven served as a Commissioner and also a minister.”
“Experience he garnered in the ministerial portfolio he held for almost three years is a necessary tool needed in our dear State at this critical time.”
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