Hon. Frank Ilaboya, former Chairman of Owan West Local Government Council has appealed to all political parties participating in September 21 governorship election in Edo state to base their campaign on issues that will be of interest to the public instead of name dropping.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja shortly the inauguration of the Nigeria Football Federation Media Committee, Hon. Ilaboya, a veteran Journalist said he is very sure that the All Progressives Congress will certainly win the election.
According to him, “I just want to appeal that this governorship campaign should be a decent one .This era of democracy, we need decency. But I can assure you that there is no way, APC will not have an upper hand in this election, because looking at the previous results from my local government , the different between the two major parties have always been very marginal.
“Now the big actors are back to APC, they we play a factor in the election.but I can assure you that at the end of the day, the result will speak.’
The former chairman, Edo state football Association said the beauty of democracy is that you have as many political parties, and the party with the highest numbers wins, saying, “So, everybody will be working, but the party that work hardest will pick the day. “
“In the three senatorial district, just look at the pendulum, DENCO is a big factor in Edo South, and with other people coming to join soon, Edo South will not be the way it was before, and Edo Central where you have the real battle ground , because the two major frontrunners are from there, the major area will be that of Edo North.
“Having Comrade Adams Oshiomole leading from the front, professor Julius Ihonvbere, chairman of the party, Emperor Jarrett Tenebe, Patrick Giwa and my humble self as a former council chairman from the same zone, you can understand is going to be a battle Royale , as I said earlier, the result will determine who owns the land.
“Politics is like a football, you pick your angle, because you look at the area where you have a comparative advantage, you work on it and get the number. But I can tell you that APC have a serious comparative advantage in Edo North.
“As I keeping saying, am happy to be back home, everybody knows my anticidence in APC through our former governor, now a senator, Comrade Adams Oshiomole who actually brought me up. Am happy I have team up with him , you saw the formal decamping of eight of us about two weeks ago. I think the next aspect now is to sensitize our supporters, galvanized them because the task ahead is huge. But the thing is that we are equal to the task . We have been talking to our supporters, been galvanizing them , telling them the new direction. Now that INEC have lifted the ban on campaign, as the time they come to our local government, they will see the crowd that come with us . Like I keeping saying, Owan West we have the House of Representatives leader, professor Julius Ihonvbere , the immediate past Clerk of the House of Representatives, Patrick Giwa, and myself also coming in now, we will have a formidable force , definitely is going to be a Big one . “
