By Ighomuaye Lucky.O
Former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Washington Osifo, has urged his co-aspirants to stop fledgling their muscles and accept Dennis Idahosa as the party’s governorship candidate.
He made the appeal while addressing Journalists in Benin on the outcome of the Saturday 17, 2024 gubernatorial primaries of the party.
Osifo admonished his co-aspirants not to be blinded by their ambition.
“Indeed, ambition could sometimes be blinding, monstrous and hysterical if pride is allowed to becloud our sense of arguments owing to our ambitions.
“That should not be! Let me, therefore, call on all former gubernatorial aspirants and their followers flexing muscles and smarting for a show down to shied their swords and put the interest of the party above personal interest and primordial sentiments.
“I believe strongly that, like me, the motive for seeking the office of the governor was pure and free of corruption, transcending personal gains.
Osifo who aborted his governorship ambition urged them that their ambition must not be allowed to completely rubbish the good fortune of their past accomplishments and tear valued social and political relationships into shreds.
He added that since that they all share the common values and ideals of progressive governance of the party, adding that they should all submit themselves to the internal mechanics and dynamics of the party which has always resolved issues amicably with all sides coming out as winners.
He said the exercise of Saturday 17, February, 2024 was not so flawed as painted and that no major party has the capacity to conduct a free and fair primary election without leadership interference.
He added that, that is integra to the party system, whose main focus is how to present a candidate who is well entrenched in the party and could muster the political muscle to win the election.
He maintained that someone may possess political assets to win general elections without the wherewithal to easily emerge as candidate due to variants in the dynamics of both forms of elections.