The All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Edo State, has mocked the State Governor, Godwin Obaseki for adopting
President Donald Trump’s campaign mantra.
Recall that Obaseki had last week
Saturday, barely 50 days to the governorship election declared he would make
Edo State great again, choosing the same mantra used by Trump in 2016.
APC described Obaseki’s action as
the most brazen daylight plagiarism.
Prince John Mayaki, Chairman, Edo
State APC Media Campaign Council, in a statement, said, “Devoid
of thought, originality, and foresight, Obaseki’s campaign mantra hit the
stands and screens, blaring itself in poorly colored letters: ‘Make Edo Great
Again.’
“As it appeared and formed in the
eyes and minds of the readers and viewers, only one thing came to mind: Donald
Trump’s Make America Great Again. But in Obaseki’s copying of this idea, we
find a man who is ignorant and dumb to the bones and marrows.
“For Donald Trump, the
antecedents and preceding narratives warrants and justifies such mantra. For
Obaseki, it doesn’t.
“Donald Trump was a conservative
republican coming against a liberal democratic who, in Trump’s view, was
complicit in the failure, incompetence, inefficiency, and corruption that
afflicts America at the time of the campaign. Trump intended to come and change
the existing norm and order, to drain the swamp.
“But here is Obaseki, the
incumbent governor seeking to make Edo State, a constituency under his care and
leadership for four years, great again.
“Two implications follow: first,
it is a clear concession of failure, an admittance that his first term was
nothing but an abominable misadventure; secondly, the adoption reveals the
depth of Obaseki’s ignorance, dullness, and intellectual blindness. How,
exactly, can a man make such a mistake? What swamp is he going to drain—the
pool of his own mess?
“The fact remains that the PDP,
right from their shameful acceptance and automatic adoption of Obaseki and his
band of failures as gubernatorial candidates, went into the campaign without
strategy and initiative.
“The latest plagiarist mantra was
produced in a hurry and under the influence of mounting pressures coming from
the popular criticisms that while Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is leading an
issue-based campaign with the SIMPLE AGENDA, Obaseki goes about seeking whom to
devour with childish propagandas characterized by glaring falsehood.
“Perhaps it becomes imperative at
this juncture, to ask an already biting and relevant question: If Obaseki is
just setting to make Edo great, what has he been doing in the past four years?
“Sleeping and dozing through
governance while supervising a looting spree? Enabling violence and honoring
thuggery?
“Closing down tertiary
institutions and diverting state funds to his private company, AfrInvest? Going
on an all-out war of opposition and dissenters?—which is the true legacy of
Obaseki’s tenure.
“Obaseki, judging from the
ongoings, is simply a rudderless child on a declining slope. Every attempt he
makes reveals just what he wishes to conceal: that he is not deserving to lead,
that he is thoughtless, and that he is insufficient.
“Admittedly, Obaseki has tried a
lot, testing deep waters and making effort to clothe his weaknesses; but it
remains one thing to try, which is the only true remedy to his plight: to give
up politics and leadership. It doesn’t suit him.”
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