By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Governorship candidate on the platform of United Progressive Party, Mr. Sheddrach Nowamagbe, a musician by profession who goes by the stage name, Adviser Nowamagbe has said as an entertainer, he is the most qualified candidate for the governorship election come September 10.
Mr. Sheddrach Nowamagbe gave the hint while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after being presented with Merit Media Award yesterday in Benin City.
Mr. Nowamagbe said going by the nature of his profession as a musician, he has gotten more than what it takes to be the governor of the state as all the co-contestants dance to the tune of music whenever it’s being played.
“I have every credibility to do that because you know my antecedents already because Oshiomole is a tailor, he has never sown any clothe in government house, Obaseki their candidate, which I do not know if he is the candidate because it is Oshiomole that is campaigning for him, he is a banker and he is not going to the government house to count money.
“Pastor Ize-Iyamu, my tight friend, is a pastor, he is not going to government house to read Bible. So, for that simple reason, as you can see, let me tell you, I am number one among all those candidates.
“Any time you see Oshiomole on stage, what does he do? Dancing. What of Ize-Iyamu? Singing and dancing. So, musicians always give joy. When you play music in the bush, snakes will refuse to bite you”, he said.
Nowamagbe who debunked the rumour making the rounds that he has not been campaigning like every other governorship candidates, said he does not believe in noise making but in a systematic campaign.
“I have started my campaigns. You do your campaign in a different ways. It is not when you are making noise in the streets that you do your campaign. My name is a household name. They know me in the eighteen local government, 192 wards and 2,367 units. For that simple reason, anywhere I go, they recognize me. I have been doing my in-house campaign, ‘Jehovah’s Witness Campaign'”, he noted.
He however said he has done so much for the people of the state by kicking against corruption and social vices through his music and without a portfolio adding that the time has come for him to use his doggedness to further emancipate the poor masses from the hands of their oppressors.
“I have been brutalized. I have murdered sleep from eyes because of the ordinary people without a portfolio. Time has really come for me to use my doggedness to gain that position most especially to deal with those past leaders who defrauded this state. I am going to crouch them like an alligator”, he affirmed
