Childlessness: Oshiomhole Mocks Governor Obaseki, Wife

Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has mocked Governor Godwin Obaseki and his wife Betsy Obaseki over their inability to bear their own children.

The First Lady of the state, Betsy Obaseki, had earlier said that only the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, has a wife among the contenders for the state governorship election.

During the PDP’s campaign flag-off at the Ubiaja Township Stadium in Esan South-East Local Government Area, Mrs Obaseki introduced Ighodalo’s wife, Ifeyinwa, to the crowd, emphasising the importance of having a woman in the Government House.

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She said, “Let us vote for the best candidate in this coming election, and I want to introduce the wife. Incidentally, among all the candidates, only one has a wife, and it’s our own party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo. Only he has a wife. This is the wife, Mrs. Ifeyinwa Ighodalo.

Reacting, the former All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman in an interview on TVC, said Godwin and Betsy have been childless since they got married and have also refused to adopt any child because they do not love children.“

He said, “I was shocked yesterday to see Mrs. Obaseki, the first lady, saying that our candidate has no wife. I’m sorry that she has to say that, because here is a woman who has no child. Between him and Obaseki, they have no child, they are childless.

“They are even not ready to adopt. I mean, I don’t blame anybody that should not have a child. But people who have love for children, they go to motherless home and adopt children.

“They have not adopted, they are both in their 60s. So you married, I don’t know whether it’s a contract or whatever it is, but they have no child,” Oshiomhole said.

He further explained that the ongoing campaigns of the APC in Edo State is being carried out by the wife and children of the APC governorship candidate, Okpebholo.

“Now our candidate not only have children, he has invested in the education of those children, such that you watch them on live television, covered by your media stations, where the first one that spoke is a lawyer, the second one is a medical doctor, and they had dressed the crowd in a Edo South, in Edo Central, in Edo North, and their mother was there,” he added.