Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Wednesday that he has not given up the struggle because his party lost the Sept. 19 governorship election in Edo state.
Oshiomhole speaking for the first time since the election, in an video, “In life you some, you lose some but life goes on.”
He expressed gratitude to God for his life and health and also thanked Edo people for actively participating in the electoral process.
Candidate of the APC in last Saturday’s election Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu was defeated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and incumbent governor of the state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki with over 84,000 votes.
Oshiomhole said: “Life is a superhighway, you work hard and you believe God for the outcome. You do your best and trust God to bless your effort. I feel good, I feel healthy, thank God, I feel strong thank God.
“In life you win some, you lose some but life goes on.
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“I want to thank everybody, I am sure a lot of people will think O, Comrade will be down, I am not down. When God says you are not down, you are not down!
“I thank Edo people for all they did over the past three, four weeks, six weeks, even under the rain, under the sun, young ladies carrying babies on their backs, I saw elderly women struggling to see my small face and on election day I was moved to tears when I saw women of 70, 75 sitting down because the card reader was not working and they were not frustrated, they tell me that at their age you don’t give up.
“Why should I give up? I ask our people to have faith in our country, we are not going to have another country. I have only one passport, I am not about to apply for any other passport, this is our country we must make it great. “We must strengthen the democracy, we must improve on it.
“No matter the outcome of an election or the particular edition of a process, have faith in God and have faith in our country. God bless you all.”
