Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has mocked Governor Godwin Obaseki, and his wife, Betsy, over their inability to bear children.
Oshimhole who is a Senator representing Edo North, during an interview with journalists on Saturday derided the couple for not making attempts to have children of their own.
According to information available to the Next Edition, the senator was said to have reacted to a statement credited to Betsy Obaseki in which she claimed that it was only the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo, who did not have a wife among the contenders in the state.
In response, the former APC national chairman, decided to mock the governor and his wife over their childlessness, saying they have been childless since they got and have refused to seek alternative measures to have children because they do not love children.
“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 (who does) 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,” Oshimhole said.
In an attempt to still add salt to injury already inflicted on the couple, Oshiomhole went further to say that the ongoing campaigns of the APC in Edo State was being executed 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 a Edo Central, in Edo North, and their mother was there,” he added.
The Next Edition reports that this is not the first time the issue of childlessness would be used to ridicule the governor and his wife. It usually happens during political campaigns
