Ikimi’s Resignation, A Political Conspiracy To Undermine Binis – Idahosa By Patrick Ochoga Idahosa, who vowed that the Binis would use their numerical strength to teach the conspirators a political lesson in the forthcoming elections, also attributed some of the political challenges in the APC to the overbearing attitude of Ikimi. “What Ikimi has done now? By saying that he has gone back to PDP where his Esan brother, Anenih, is, just because Chief John Odigie Oyegun, a Bini man, was made national chairman of APC is an insult to the Binis and they will pay for it come February 2015 because when both of them were national chairmen of NRC and SDP, the Binis supported them because we see them as our brothers, but for Ikimi to say because Oyegun – who is even more experienced than him – is national chairman, he decided to quit the party to join his brother, they will never get any support from the Binis. “How can you tell people that you are defecting because you were not made national chairman, that Oyegun was imposed? Meanwhile, Ikimi is the godfather of imposition. All the problems that Oshiomhole has encountered in Edo State were spearheaded by Tom Ikimi. Ikimi created a lot of problems for Oshiomhole. The last congress we had in Edo State, the problem we were having in Esan was tied around him because he believed that everything done in that area must be tied to him. “If he is not involved, he will accuse Oshiomhole of undermining him. He insisted that Modino Emovon must not be the state women leader. We resisted him but at the end of the day, Oshiomhole agreed with him. We now appealed to Modino Emovon to go and beg Tom Ikimi, and that woman is the daughter of one of the most respectable chiefs in Benin, the Arala of Benin.” Do you know she was standing by the gate of Ikimi’s house to see him and Ikimi drove past her like she was a nobody? “I am so happy because Ikimi now knows how it feels to impose people. He drove Imasuagbon out of APC, now he is going to meet Imasuagbon there. The governor is so protective of him. But he does not know the implication of what he did. If Ikimi had won, Oyegun would not have left. Oyegun rose through the system to become a federal permanent secretary and the first elected executive governor of Edo State”, he said.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:48:57 +0000
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