Edo Election: “A Professor Told Me He Came To Cash Out” –  Weeping Prince Odigie

By Adesina Soyooye

A prominent son of Edo State, Prince Emmanuel Odigie, in what one could describe as embarrassing, broke down in tears on an international television.

The Prince who was a guest on Arise Television’s very popular program, The Morning Show, to discuss the outcome of the September 21, 2024, Governorship Election, was so engulfed in emotion that he, suddenly, broke down in tears, and cried. It was the lot of one of the presenters of the program, Rufai Oseni, to console him by  telling him “don’t cry, don’t cry.”

Prince Odigie had strongly rooted for  Dr. Asue Ighodalo, the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In fact, a few days before the election, he was also a guest at The Morning Show where he confidently emphasized that Ighodalo’s victory was a done deal. He did not see the possibility of a Monday Okpebholo victory. As for an Olumide Akpata victory, he dismissed it with a wave of the hand.

It was, therefore, a devastated, numb and absolutely shocked Prince Odigie who returned to Arise Television, post- election, to analyze the outcome.

He began by telling his interviewers that he was in deep mourning. Proof: He drew their attention to his choice of appearance – head to toe. He appeared in all black, and emphasized he did so to mourn the outcome of the election, the death of democracy in Nigeria, the death of everything decent in Nigeria, and the  take-over of the country by evil.

Instructively, Odigie had wept earlier before the Arise Television incident. He told Arise Television after informing them why he wore all black, that he had cried before four women.

He said that the four returned from the United States of America, USA, where they live, just to vote for Ighodalo. He said he wept when the women told him that they had never witnessed such electoral robbery before; that they were ashamed of their country, and because of what they witnessed, they would never return to Nigeria again.

In tears, Prince Odigie insisted there was no way Okpebholo and his APC could have won any election in Edo State. He said neither the Civil Servants, Teachers, Market women and men, artisans, students nor the youths could have voted for the APC.

He revealed that most of those who worked for the INEC and Security Agents connived to scandalously shame the Country.

Proof: He disclosed that he was in shock, and knew that the Country was finished when a University Professor who came to Edo for Election duties told him:  “I came here to cash out.”

The September 21 Governorship Election has been bedevilled by controversy and scandalous complaints all of which have put a big question mark on the outcome of the exercise.