Even Odion showed a somewhat deep understanding of the circumstances that resulted in the imposition of Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor as PDP candidate by Obasanjo in the 2007 governorship election and the subsequent political mischief within the PDP which was why the party leaders could not collectively defend the Osunbor mandate.If they had not allowed internal rift that proved deadly to the mandate, how would Oshiomhole have won the case in the Tribunal' And if Oshiomhole had not presented himself as capable of being loyal during the time the matter was in the court, could he have received the sympathy of Anenih' After all, did Oshiomhole not concede some commissionership slots to Anenih when he stepped in as governor following the November 14, 2008 Court of appeal verdict that sacked Osunbor' Was it for nothing that he made those concessions'And when Oshiomhole decided to misbehave in the guise of waging a war against the godfathers, did he not unleash government machinery against Anenih and the PDP machine in the state with members of the House of Assembly becoming endangered' Was it not to decimate him and his political base as his ilks have done to some other godfathers in their respective states' But while those could not survive, Anenih survived in Edo and has become a formidable threat to Oshiomhole and the ACN machine in the state.In the rerun elections into some State House of Assembly seats which took place before the April 2011 legislative elections, Oshiomhole whose mantra of 'one man, one vote' was a faade for 'one thug, one vote', deployed state machinery to bolster thuggery in the exercise in which the ACN candidates triumphed over their PDP opponents. Excited about the development, Oshiomhole had organised a mass rally with coffin-bearing party faithful claiming that they had buried the godfather in Edo politics. They had expected to sweep all the April legislative polls in Edo, but they were stopped in Edo Central by the force of Anenih which made it possible for the PDP to win the only senatorial seat, the two Houses of Representatives seats and five out of the six State House of Assembly seats in the district; and these winnings that have now been confirmed by the Tribunal and Edo Central, remain a no-go area for Oshiomhole.Yet, Odion claimed that the man who has achieved this feat in the face of a brutal ACN government machine is a spent force! What a mindset! Besides, contrary to the impression created by Odion that Anenih used his boys in the State Legislature to work against passage of bills, he (Anenih) actually reined his support for greater Edo State by intervening in a utilitarian modus when Oshiomhole stepped in as governor and could not understand the political economy of budgeting'. That is why he is a conscionable leader with his eyes on history. I can understand the fears of Oshiomhole and his foot soldiers when Anenih, after the recent successful congresses of the PDP in the state, declared that the party would recapture the state in next year's governorship election. They know his capacity to cause a collateral damage to their political agenda and therefore, no efforts must be spared to rubbish him and make him look ordinary.The strategy cannot work. Having done the dirty job of trying to diminish Anenih in the public estimation, they cannot rest assured that they will be in charge of the battle for the soul of Edo. So, Oshiomhole and his megaphone (Odion) would be shocked when, contrary to their propaganda, Anenih performs a miracle of leading the PDP to upset the applecart of incumbency in the state next year. It is then that Odion would know that Anenih is not day-dreaming and that he (Anenih) does not belong to the genre of Odion's so-called tuketuke (jaded or tired) politicians. But is it not sad that Oshiomhole and Odion, a professional unionist and a professional journalist, respectively, have both ceased the platform of governance to don the garb of some kind of propagandists and 'politricksters
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