Massive decamping of APC Strong men in Owan to PDP – Okpaimau leads decampees

Massive decamping of APC Strong men in Owan to PDP – Okpaimau leads decampees

The former chairman of the Owan local government led some leaders of the APC to the PDP yesterday 18^th when Pasrtor Osagie Ize-Iyamu stormed Emme Ora with his entourage.

The situation with the APC has deteriorated to such a state that the community as a whole wants the APC to leave power as soon as possible to facilitate the growth of the local government as Oshiomole is believed to hate the people of Owan.

Three examples highlight the hatred and perfidy the people say the comrade governor have for the people of Owan particular. The first is the 2015 elections in which one of their eminent sons Professor Ihonvere was running for primary elections in the APC for the senate seat. Oshiomole was said to have vowed that Ihonvere will not get the ticket as long as he was governor. At the time the Governor of the state(Oshiomole) was from the Etsako and the deputy was a Bini man so it was expected that in Edo north, the senate seat will be slated to Owan. Oshiomole insisted on giving this ticket to an Auchi person from the same Etsako to the detriment of the Owan people and in the process completely humiliated Professor Ihonvere who was the most qualified and most popular of  the candidates.

The second incident is the Vice Chancellor position in the state owned university. The Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma needed a new Vice Chancellor and as the academia usually does, various candidates vied for the position and they were made to take examinations to determine the best suited for the position. The best three candidates had their names sent to the governor for selection with Professor Bagaki from Owan leading the bunch by a wide margin. Here again Oshiomole slighted the people of Owan by side stepping the Owan man who was best qualified for the position and picking a far less qualified candidate for vice chancellor, a professor Onimawu from Uzairue in Etsako the comrades local government.

Oshiomoles perfidy peaked when he sent road construction equipment to Okpuje in Owan west on the eve of the APC primary elections in the state. After he had manipulated his preferred candidates into position in the primaries, the bulldozers and road graders began to disappear from Owan one by One and at this very moment there are no equipment present neither has any construction taken place.

It will be foolhardy for any Owan loving son of the soil to remain in the APC seeing that the whole local government is against the party because of Oshiomoles antics said one of the decampees.