Edo needs a successor that will sustain Obaseki’s legacies

 A popular music producer and presenter on radio, Hon Kingsley Ogbebor popularly called SKO has said that Edo state needs a successor that would build on the legacies of the outgoing governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki and said that in choosing his successor, competence and not ethnicity or language should be the parameter.

Ogbebor stated this at a thanksgiving and carnival to celebrate his recent appointment as a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the governor, an event that attracted personalities from the entertainment industry and academia.

An elated Ogbebor told Vanguard that “God has shown me mercy and I decided to come and thank God. I was made an SA in Ore do some years ago and today God has taken me from the local government to the state level as an SSA , when you come to thank God you are actually telling Him to do more for you.

“We need to sustain the present legacy by getting the best candidate and in getting the best candidate, let us leave ethnicity, let us leave the language like Martin Luther King Jr said it should not be about the color but by the content of the character, what is the pedigree of this person, if we put him there, what can he do so let us put the best out of the many. We have a lot of people just looking for one position, let that person be the best among all the lot and above all let him be the one that is chosen by God so that Edo State can move forward so that Edo State can be a little London and a better place for every one of us.”

Earlier in his sermon, the officiating minister of PORAG Assembly, Pastor Abraham Onosedeba urged those in authority to always maintain their position for the benefit of the people. He identified three ways leaders can be remembered on how they used power : those who used their position to solve problems, those who used their power to create problems and those who refused to use their power to help when they could have done so.

The high point of the service was performances by various artistes including Dr. Fabomo Edoleyi, Humble Lion, St Henry, Mr. Comb, and Glorious Voices among others.
Some of the dignitaries were Joe Ehigiamusoe, Edo Cultural Ambassador to the UK, Bar. Athur Esene, a governorship aspirant, Professor Kokunre Eghafona, Prince Bassey Okafor, Europe based Beauty Obazee and others.