Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki says he does regret a comment he made on the campaign trail that generated condemnation from Nigerians.

Obaseki in a recent rally said the governorship election slated for September 21 is a do-or-die affair.

Defending his point amid heavy criticism from the largest All Progressives Congress (APC), he maintained during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday that the election is a do-or-die affair because the Edo people will be doomed if the All Progressives Congress takes over the state.

He accused the opposition party of perfecting the arts of rigging the elections on Saturday, warning that the state’s people would resist them.

Obaseki also expressed his lack of confidence in the police before the election, accusing them of bias.

“It’s a do-or-die affair because if they do, we die, the level of impunity, the level of recklessness we see in the opposition party if they take over Edo state, is finished – that is the end.

“If you see the evidence of what they have done, the blatant way they have gone about it. It is like they forget that the police are being funded by taxpayers’ money, Nigerians taxpayers’ money. They should just be a bit more professional and unbiased,” he said.