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Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is not a personality of easy mien. As a labour leader, he transformed unionism into a state of vibrancy holding out the federal government on superior argument to buttress his positions.
For political pundits, the April 14th, 2007 gubernatorial election was a test of his unalloyed commitment to uphold the masses mandate no matter how far the battle is drawn.
Firing from the angle of political irregularities that marred many elections in the federation, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was armed with the lethal weapon to prove to Nigerians that there is still hope in the judiciary as the bastion of the common man.
Like the President of United states of America, Barrack Obama, Oshiomhole has remained resolute, even in the face of threats to life, taunts and denigration from the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
His avowed belief on the sanctity of judiciary came to light, when on march 20th, 2008, a 5-man tribunal led by Justice Olibanjo Orilolonshe declared Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole as winner of the gubernatorial elections.
Before the judgement, it was alleged that former governor Oserheimen Osunbor reached out to the Action Congress candidate for a truce that will make him denounce his mandate.
Like Barack Obama, he believed the time to liberate the Edo people from the shackles of poor governance and squandermania has come.
Hence, what followed this was murder, extortions and threats to key figures that will break the jinx of bad government.
However, the ruling party like an empire at the verge of precipe, began to develop a divided house, thereby, inflicting cracks within the ranks.
On November 11, 2008, the historic moment awaited by both the Binis, Ishans, Afemais and Igarras blew open their latent pent-up canon of oppression as they marched the streets of the state capital, chanting freedom! Freedom!!
The lessons to be deduced here is that no matter how long an oppressive regime might last, there is always a day of judgment symbolized by the phenomenon that propelled the re-birth.
For the peoples governor, Adams Oshiomhole, it has provided him, the opportunity to explain those hypothesis that he believes government have failed to execute and lessen the problem of the masses. It is also a panacea to the issue of God-fatherism that had plagued the country for a long time.
As he mounts the saddle, we are optimistic that a new dawn has come to Edo state devoid of aggregate years of locust.
The electoral victories of US Democratic candidate, Barrack Obama and Edo State Action Congress (AC) candidate in the 2007 Gubernatorial elections, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole have continued to excite Imo people, up to the extent that a law maker in the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon Ray
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos recently expressed confidence that his counterpart in Edo, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, would turn-around the fortunes of the state.
``I'm sure the dark days are gone for good in Edo,” Fashola, who returned from Oshiomhole's swearing-in Benin aboard a chartered aircraft, told
Zone Nine Police Command, Umuahia, Abia State have arrested two suspected fake doctors operating illegal hospitals in Imo State, few months after a teenage girl died in their hands as a result of unsuccessful caesarean operation.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar returned to Nigeria on Friday, from Dubai, to quell controversies on his change of political party, insisting he is still a member of the Action Congress (AC).
Atiku, accompanied by his aides and political associates at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja told newsmen that he was not aware of his posters adorning major streets
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