Adams Oshiomhole Apologises for Backing Obaseki in 2016

 The recently removed National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC),  Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed regret to the people of Edo State for supporting Governor Godwin Obaseki to emerge as the state governor in 2016.

He, however, said his mission for now would be to ensure the governor’s defeat in the governorship election scheduled for September 19.

Oshiomhole tendered the apology while addressing a crowd that gathered to welcome him at his Iyamho country home.

He said: “I have made a mistake by supporting a man who has no vision for my people. So, I want to correct my mistakes by making sure a servant of God, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is elected as governor and kick the snake out of the government house.

“From now till September 19, I am here in Edo State because a political lion that I am, I am not scared of anything.

According to him, “Now the snake that enters our family home, God has driven the snake to where he belongs.

“I have come home to join you and start the process of reclaiming the house back to the family of APC. And if the people say, yes, and God says yes, there is no man born of a woman that can say no.

“So, now I have only one mission and I know it is our common mission: to bring Edo back to the part of sustainable development. “We want to return to the government of the people by the people and for the people.”

“The governor was demolishing the houses of our members while some were being jailed for trump-up charges; these are the people who fought for him to become governor,” he said, adding: “I even pleaded with those who were being persecuted to take it easy, that they shouldn’t burn the house we all laboured to build because they wanted to smoke out the snake. But now, the snake has been smoked out of the house.”