Following this week’s roll-out of the schedule for the next set of governorship elections, permutations on where the Ambode Treatment would be next served are now being imagined. It is certainly not in Kogi or Bayelsa. The first two of the seven states involved in off-season governorship elections.
That scenario began to unfold penultimate week after stakeholders in the state chapter of the APC began to take positions in the possible conflict between godfather and godson. It was a rehash of what happened in Lagos State. The two are said to be distasteful of the political class who brought them into office. The refrain in Governor Obaseki’s case was that he was so much revolted by the way politicians reaped from the election that brought him in that he was wont to tell them that they had been sufficiently settled! It was as such no joke that some of those who hitherto dictated the pace and pattern of politics in the state have come into hard times.
Well, he would also have had to face serious questions from citizens who ply the Mile 2-Badagry and the Mile 2-Apapa Express-ways who quarrel that he left the two roads far worse than he met them!But on balance, he would have soldiered on if physical performance was considered as the barometer for a second term. It is within that context that the unfolding drama in Edo State is now playing out.