Edo guber: Okpebholo will correct Obaseki’s mistakes – APC

Just three months before the Edo State governorship election, the campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said its candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, had been elected governor state, will correct the mistakes of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration. .

Newspapers Pledge reports that Kassim Afegbua, media adviser to the campaign council, gave the assurance on Sunday in Benin City.
No fewer than 16 political parties are nominating candidates in the Edo State governorship election, scheduled for September 21, 2024.

Afegbua, who called on the people of the state to reject the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, added that Monday Senator Okpebholo, if elected, would focus on the year Important sectors of the socio-economic sectors of the people of the state who are in urgent need attention.

He listed fields including agriculture, healthcare, education, human resource development, environmental protection and safety and security architecture. “A vote for Senator Okpebholo on Monday will end the capital flight synonymous with the PDP-led government in the state.

Indigenous businessmen were stifled under Obaseki’s administration. Suitcase contractors are being imported to the state to undertake work instead of promoting our businesses.

“The APC candidate, Okpebholo, is a man known to everyone. He contested the 2023 election in his senatorial district and defeated an incumbent senator of the PDP. This proves people’s acceptance.
“The Edo State must rise up, escape the trap of underdevelopment and be fully free to work with one that will promote collective enterprise for the common good of our people,” he said.

Afegbua, who described PDP governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, as an importer and henchman of Obaseki, noted that he would continue the “hateful policies” of Governor Obaseki if elected to power .
He listed the failed promises of the Obaseki-led PDP administration to include Sobe Farm, 18 stadiums in 18 local governments, Gelegele Port, Auchi Airport, Industrial Park and 200,000 jobs in Edo.