- Esan High Chief: “ Edo no be yeye state oh! We are known for Best, Brightest…No Person when don fail WAEC ‘II be governor!”
By Hamilton Nwosa
A seeming political crisis that is currently threatening to tear Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) into shreds ahead of the September 2024 governorship election, has heightened as many supporters of the APC are said to be disappointed over the choice of Senator Monday Okpebholo, whose West African Senior School(WAEC) Certificate results with damning scores, is currently trending on social media. This development is said to be triggering mass concern among Edo people and potential voters who are concerned that the APC is putting forward its wrong foot in the upcoming elections.
The New Diplomat checks show that this development is gradually eliciting major shift in political alliance and allegiance among potential voters in Edo state, who fear that the State, once regarded as a premier centre of excellence since the era of Prof Ambrose Ali to Dr Sam Ogbemudia, up to erudite elder-statesman Oyegun down to Adams Oshiomhole and currently the hardworking Obaseki might be trapped in a sterile, fruitless political scenario if APC insists on proceeding with someone “ with a very poor grades, results in school…” with the consequence that people are now asking: “ Oshiomhole has said he cannot entrust the safety of an institution in the hands of someone who failed his qualifying exams, …So how come they are not listening to him?”
In the six subjects, Monday Okpebholo reportedly sat for, his performance was sterile and ineffectual. Consequently, many analysts are wondering how such a person could muster the audacity to insist on contesting in a state that produced some of the best and brightest in the land. The WAEC examination which Okpebholo reportedly sat for in June 2008 at Liberty comprehensive College, Jos, in 2008, indicate the following grades as his scores:
1. Commerce-D7 2. Christian Religious Knowledge-D7 3.Economics-D7.4.Government-E8 5.English Language-D7 and Mathematics-C5
This result which has been trending on social media has set tongues rolling. A High Chief in Esan land, Edo Central, Chief Enahoro Esele wondered why the APC is insistent on going ahead with a material with this damning results. “ Edo no be yeye State Oh! We go tell them Say Edo no be Yeye State, where person when fail go say he wants to be governor…”. But another commentator was of the view that it doesn’t really matter if “ Monday failed because Comrade(Adams Oshiomhole) will help in the Campaign”.
It would be recalled that Senator Monday Okpebholo, representing Edo Central at the National Assembly, emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 21 September governorship election in Edo State recently, after an acrimonious primary.
Bassey Otu, governor of Cross River, who was the chair of the APC supplementary primary, while declaring Okpebholo the winner of the election said the candidate garnered 12,433 votes to defeat 11 other aspirants in the contest.
