The battle between Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole, may have turned into a war of parables.
This came to fore on Friday when Obaseki wittily responded to Oshiomhole’s parable of a mosquito disturbing one’s ear and what happens when the victim decides to fight back.
According to Oshiomhole, the mosquito may not be as weak and harmless as anyone thinks.
Describing the political feud between him and Obaseki as a “buzzing mosquito around the ear, Oshiomhole had said: “The test of leadership is when a mosquito is blowing your ear, if you keep quiet nobody will hear and if you shout, ‘Mosquito, mosquito’, everybody will hear. May we not be provoked by it.”
But speaking at the Edo Women Summit, as part of activities to mark his third year anniversary, Obaseki said on Friday: “They say we are a mosquito, but we will show them that a mosquito can cause malaria and, if you are not careful, malaria will kill you.”
The Governor noted that with the investment in the education sector, Edo would not produce another generation of touts. He stated that his administration had opened up the political space that people did not need to be mobilised to attend political rallies, adding that in the sector, his administration had made tremendous progress, including EdoBest, were headed by women.
