By Nosa. Ekhator
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo state, Sen. Monday Okpebholo has unveiled his plans for the people of the state when elected.
Sen. Monday Okpebholo who stated this, on Tuesday, at a media interactive session with members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo state council said the current PDP government in the state has mismanaged our economy with their unrepentant capital flight which has impoverished our people, the more.
“When Comrade Oshiomhole was the governor, our monthly allocation from the federation account was not more than N3.5 billion, at its peak, but last month, the allocation that came to this state was over N11 billion yet the debt profile of Edo State is over N500 billion naira in the same period that the IGR has increased. So what have they done with this money? These are questions Edo people should ask them. The money that comes to the state, they take outside the state, the money we have in circulation is money from our Diaspora brothers and sisters that they send to their family members here, all these we will change because Edo people’s money must be used for the people of Edo state and in Edo state
He said it was embarrassing that Edo Line Transport Service which was the pride of the state and Bendel Breweries with both capacity to employ thousands of Edo people have been left unattended to by the Obaseki administration “What we hear are rhetoric, anything that will give jobs to our people particularly youths, they will not bother about it, our youths are being used as evil tools because they are jobless, the people are hungry because there are no jobs.
On security, Okpbholo said from the day he resumes office as governor, the issue of insecurity would be tackled “When we win, by the grace of God, we will go after them, they will relocate from this state. We did it before in Edo Central through Atanakpa even before I became a senator and the entire Edo Central has been peaceful until now and we have to check the reason for that now.
“My records are there to speak for me and all these we will replicate in the entire state. As we speak I am doing an "Operation Light Up" Edo Central with 3,000 street lights to be mounted, we are still rebuilding schools, not less then 49 boreholes have been sunk even before I became a senator.”
The APC governorship candidate said serious infrastructural development stopped with the Oshiomhole's administration but that as governor, he would go back to development of critical infrastructure which he said is the quickest way to bring development to the people.”
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