By Osagie Edosomwan
In the 2007 gubernatorial election in Edo State, the people needed a leader who is bold, courageous, serious and determined to unearth the roots of the profound problems of structure that faced them.
Then came the quintessential, brief in stature, intellectually robust and extremely popular labour leader, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who decided that he would cut off the toes of the powerful and offend the poor in order to bring about a transformation in Edo State by seeking to restore the Edo State master plan.
In doing this, he dismantled the apparatuses of privilege replacing it with a dynamic social organization that was designed to provide the channels of opportunity for those who desired to engage in genuine enterprise and in so doing create an atmosphere of equal worth and a sense of pride in all the streams of the ethnic origins of Edo people.
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