Former People’s Democratic Party governorship aspirant in the September 19, 2020 Edo State governorship election, Barr. Ken Imansuagbon, yesterday, said, it is the turn of the people of Edo Central to produce governor Godwin Obaseki’s successor come 2024.
He made the assertion at the Esan Leadership Summit held in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo.
Imansuagbon who hosted the summit, said with Obaseki’s victory at the Supreme Court, the coast is now very clear for all Esan sons and daughters to work towards actualising their desire in taking governorship come 2024.
The summit with the theme “Esan Leadership Questions; Matters Arising saw participants brainstorm on the Esan political Future for the senatorial Districts.
He added that the gathering of Esan personalities shouldn’t be for speech making alone but an opportunity to deliberate on issues that foster greater unity among Esan people.
“It will remain deeply pleasing if this gathering marks a response to our political question. That is, if this would act as a collective impulse carrying out some brief moments for reflections.
“We must use this opportunity to act as demand for action and to crush all negativities that might arise in us. We must bask in what I will here refer to the Esan Hope,better still, the Esan Unity – that is akugbe-ahu.
“Even as many today talk about the Esan Agenda, I make bold to say that what the Esans are clamouring for is the Edo state agenda that is fairness, equity and justice which will guarantee peace and development. Let emulate our sister state like Delta where power is rotated among three senatorial districts.
“And that is why there is the need to reposition our political attitudes, replacing complacency with rededication, a task that must be accomplished by not only those of us that are seated here today, but all Esans home and abroad”.
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Marcus Izeagbeaya Onobun, appealed to the participants to be united and strive to do things that would promote the ideals of Esan people.
He also cautioned that efforts should be geared to ensure that the voting population of the senatorial district is enlarged whereby eligible voters of Esan extraction all around the country come back home to register so that their vote can always count in any election in the state.
The Speaker lauded the efforts of the organisers of the summit and also commended the host, Barrister Imansuangbon, for making his facility available for use at no cost.
