My mission in politics is to fix Edo State – Barr. Thompson Osadolor

He speaks Bini fluently and his English is also flawlessly delivered. Having lived in the United Kingdom since 1990, you would be thinking what he knows about Edo politics, for which he is aspiring to be the Governor of the State, come November 2016. But when you engage him, this gubernatorial candidate of KOWA party in Edo State, Barr. Thompson Osadolor would shock you.
The NIGERIAN OBSERVER, in attempting to know his reason for joining the political fray, posed the question: what exactly is your driving force, why are you into politics, and why specifically do you want to be the next Governor of Edo State, on the platform of a political party that is relatively unknown to Edo people, that is, the KOWA party?
Hear what this Barrister at law  had to say: “Yes, POWA may certainly be a small party, as they say, but it is a party powered by great ideas, and has great men behind it. Our presidential candidate in the last presidential election in 2015 is a Professor. I hold a Masters Degree in law from the United Kingdom. I have been in business in this town, Benin, for decades now, even though I have lived in the United Kingdom for about 26 years. I am constantly in touch with my family, friends and Edo people generally. I feel what they feel, I bear what they bear and I am not in anyway extricated from the hardship that the ordinary Nigerian today goes through.
“I have lived and dined with great men in the United kingdom. I have seen and felt the quality of governance and politics in the U.K, I have friends, colleagues and politicians in the U.K., we interact, I know what good governance is all about and I do sincerely believe it can be replicated in Edo State, my home state.
“I have always told people, particularly my party men and women of KOWA, that I am the mechanic Edo State needs to fix it. I am irrevocably committed to this mission to fix Edo State and I am passionate about it. Since I indicated interest to run for the office of Governor of Edo State, I have seen and witnessed a very sad development which is the fact that politics in Edo State, nay Nigeria, is highly commercialised and too expensive. The money people sink into printing posters, campaigns and doing other things, to me, is outrageous. It is not the way politics is played where I am coming from. I want to replicate good governance as it is applicable in advanced countries of the world and de-emphasise commercialized politics as much as possible”.
Not yet done, Barr. Osadolor quipped: “To be more specific, my involvement in Edo State politics is purely on the ground of moral intervention, because I am from this state and I have no other state and that is why I want to fight for Edo people because, for too long, Edo people  have been cheated and pushed to the back of the queue.
“We have to start the fight now. A fight that will bring good education, a fight that brings good health care system, a fight that brings abundant employment, a fight that will bring more good road network, a fight that will respect our pensioners, a fight that will bring a better educational system, a fight that will help our farmers and create the enabling environment, a fight that will boost our tourism sector in Edo State, a fight that will encourage our brothers and sisters in diaspora to return home from foreign land when they are old and retired, a fight that will bring the political revolution for total eradication, emancipation, degradation of life and human dignity that we all have been subjected to in this state and the country”.
“I have come to tell Edo people, that this state is politically at a crossroad. Quality of life is at its lowest. Unemployment of our youths and undergraduates is at its highest. All systems for sustaining the state and society have collapsed and in total confusion, including education, healthcare, and the judiciary. We cannot continue on this path, and that is why I am calling for a change of direction and today the change must begin. Edo people must change the direction and take their destiny into their hands by the power of their vote in he next coming election on September 10, 2016 and invest in their future because the future belongs to those who invest in it.
On what the future of KOWA party is, considering the fact that two dominant parties, the APC and PDP are firmly entrenched in Edo State, and appear better positioned to wrest power, because of their structures, the KOWA governorship candidate said: “The government of the KOWA party in Edo State is a possibility. We have come to offer an alternative platform to Edo people, whether or not there is a mega party on ground. Other states will take a queue from us in Edo, and we are ready and willing to run an open, transparent and inclusive government that will include all the traditional leaders starting from the community leaders, the Edionwere, the traditional Chiefs, and the Enigie who will also be paid salaries and stipends as the civil servants for their part and involvement in the leadership of their local community. It is an opportunity to change the destiny of our people for good for now and forever.
The KOWA government in Edo State will encourage taxation but not excessive taxation that will emansculate tax payers.