The outgoing Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has warned that the civil servants would be the first victim if his candidate, Asue Ighodalo does not win the next Saturday Governorship election in the State.
It had been reported that Governor Obaseki gave the warning at a thank-you meeting with the public servants at the Sir Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub in Benin City.
Obaseki, however, opined that the only thank-you the civil servants could give him was to come out en masse on Saturday and vote for Asue Ighodalo as the governor of the state.
According to him, I came to appreciate and thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wouldn’t have achieved what we achieved without you.
“Those who want to take over power by all means are uneducated and have never worked in any better place. My message to you is that, that is a risk we can’t afford. It is not about Obaseki but democracy and development.
“The risk is about allowing people without ideas of what to do to lead. People who can’t even articulate their ideas, people who can’t read a balance sheet. They can’t offer us anything but all they talk about is federal might and others.
Edo will face a major risk if you miss it on Saturday. Any mistake you make will affect you first before others. You will be the first victim.
“What I have started is a long journey. How do we build a society that we are yearning for and stop travelling to other countries? How to build a state where people will be proud to come to. The purpose of governance is to create the avenue to achieve set purposes.
“It’s a journey. I am finishing the first part but the journey must not stop. It must continue, the engine of development must continue to run. The rate at which we need to run will be very high when we make the right decision. We can’t afford any mistakes come Saturday”, he said.
The governor, however, said he would be thanking Asue Ighodalo for agreeing to take over from him, noting that it was a great thing.
While noting that the good news is that Edo State is blessed with high-calibre human and natural resources, he added that there was still a lot of work to be done in the state.
He posited that when he came to office, he told himself that he was going to be the last governor to use paper.