Edo poll: Why I didn’t support Ize-Iyamu – Oyegun
Erstwhile National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has justified his decision to step aside from the party’s electioneering campaigns before the recently concluded gubernatorial election in Edo State.
APC’s aspirant, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was whitewashed by the incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Godwin Obaseki.
During an interview with newsmen in Benin City, the state capital, Oyegun noted: “I cannot support injustice” and will only do what his conscience doesn’t consider wrong.
“Let me put it this way: I am a man of conscience. I am a strong believer in justice and fair play. I am a strong believer that when the rules of an association you belong to have been so flagrantly disregarded, put aside, not complied with, then, you have to go back to your conscience to say, can I support what has happened? I cannot support injustice.
“In terms of going out to work for injustice, I hope you get the meaning? Going out, to say, what I in my conscience I considered wrong, I am not supporting working for it, to be instituted, l cannot do that. And normal people should not do that. Your loyalty in life should be what is right, that is principle.
“Don’t forget, at every point, my views were known and it is not that I hide and I said nothing,” Oyegun claimed.
