Move For Edo North, Senator Domingo’s Replacement

A group, Edo North Professionals’ Forum, may have begun a subterranean move to oust the Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Domingo Obende, whom they described as “a setback to the senatorial district.”

In a letter addressed to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and signed by its president, Barrister Muhammed Aloaye, and six other local government coordinators, the Edo North Professionals’ Forum said their mission was “to champion the socio-economic development of Edo North senatorial district (Afenmai), while positioning it for future political prospects.”

The group said, “it does not require a special skill or intelligence to recognise the effort of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at rebuilding Edo State with particular reference to Edo North just as you do not also need an expert with special skills to recognise that Senator Domingo Obende has failed the people of Edo North with his indifferent attitude to the political and socio-economic challenges confronting our people.

“We are pleased to report to your Excellency that opinion polls have shown that Edo North has never had it so bad even as political elders and leaders across the six local government attest to the fact that the problem with the senatorial district is inextricably tied to poor quality of leadership it is plagued with, especially with its uncomplimentary role with the effort of the Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in taking us out of the woods.

The group added that Edo North needs a Senator of iron resolve, indomitable courage and sharp intellect with acute and exceptional sense of history to lead the people out of the doldrums.

“We must, as a people, effect a change and quickly too. We must sit down and address critically, the phenomenon of having wrong people in offices.

Men of proven integrity should also come out and give it what it takes to assume positions of responsibility because the price good people pay for abstaining from public office is that they allow wrong people to lead them.

“Mr. Governor Sir, you owe it a duty, just as we collectively do, at this particular point in our political history, to fish out patriotic and right-thinking citizens to man positions of responsibilities in Afenmai, and by extension, Edo State,” the group wrote in the letter.