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By DAN Osa-Ogbegie, Esq. There comes a time in a people’s history when farce begins to wear the robe of tragedy. That moment arrived in Edo State the day Jarret Tenebe and Governor Monday Okpebholo mounted a rented stage to announce, with the blithe confidence of jesters, that they would deliver 3.5 million votes to the President in 2027, in a state whose entire voters’ register barely scratches 2.7 million. What mathematics of deceit is this? What arithmetic of delusion makes men mistake noise for numbers? Edo watched in disbelief as the supposed custodians of the ruling party and the state transformed governance into a carnival of mediocrity — dancing around false statistics as though governance were a street fair and not a sacred trust. Instead of confronting the aching realities that define Edo today — joblessness, insecurity, urban decay, abandoned hospitals, and a civil service gasping for reform — Okpebholo has chosen to preside over rallies of distraction. While mar...