Edo 2024: Ogie Resigns As SSG










Edo 2024: Ogie Resigns As SSG

Iduozee Paul, Benin


The Secretary to the Edo State Government (SSG), Mr. Osarodion Ogie, has formally resigned his position to pursue a political ambition.

Osarodion Ogie formally tendered his resignation last Friday, August 9, 2024 as he has already been nominated as the running mate to the PDP governorship candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo.

Ogie, also explained that his resignation is in tandem with the Electoral Law which mandate political appointees who want to contest elections to resign 30 days before the election.

“It was in fulfilment of this requirement that I had to resign to face my deputy governorship ambition in the forthcoming election in the state”, he said.

More so, Ogie’s resignation has attracted positive reactions with the Publisher of Midwest Herald, Orobosa Omo-Ojo, describing him as a colossus who bestrode Edo State politics and shaped it like no other statesman.

A member of the cabinet class of 2012 with Ogie in the administration of Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomohle, Omo-Ojo said “Politics would not be in such perilous state if more players followed Ogie wise, but ruthlessly pragmatic approach to it.

“The humane, Clement and tolerant Osarodion Ogie Esq., bow out of his office as Secretary to Edo State Government after a meritorious Service that lasted two months short of 16 years”, he added.

Recall that Osarodion Ogie was the Principal Partner, Osarodion Ogie & Co.

He was also Chief of Staff (CoS) to Governor Adams Oshiomohle in 2008 and was later appointed Commissioner for Works from 2012 – 2016.

He was appointed SSG by Governor Godwin Obaseki, a position he held untill his resignation.
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