By Dayo Omoogun
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has said that he cannot ignore the local politics of Edo State as he does not want to be a national chairman who cannot win elections within his local domain.
Oshiomhole who was speaking on Saturday in Auchi, Edo State at a rally to receive defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into his party, said “Some people asked me why I am playing local politics as a national chairman and I told them that every politics is local. I don’t want to be an Abuja political who cannot win his poling unit, local government and state in election.
“I don’t want to be an Abuja politician because I am a national chairman and on the day of election, I can’t win my unit. “I don’t want to be a chairman who campaign and win election in other states and on election day I can’t win my unit, ward, house of assembly member and national assembly member. If I don’t win my place, how will I deliver the president and how will I be a useful national chairman,” he said.
Stressing that there is no politics without local politics, he said “So I will play national politics and I will also play unit, ward, local government and state politics because if you are disconnected with local politics you are not going anywhere in politics,