The the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the September 21 governorship election in Edo will be decided by the people of the state, not armchair analyst.
Orobosa Omo-Ojo, Director of Publicity, APC Edo Governorship Campaign Organization, said this in a statement in Benin.
Omo-Ojo was reacting to the commissioner of communication and orientation, Cheis Nehikhare, condemning the state APC chairman statement during an interview on Arise Television that many people in Edo can not afford pay television.
He noted that Edo people have demonstrated their unequivocal decision to take back the state from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which “has plundered the people commonwealth.
“The peoples’ resolve is strengthened by the infrastructural decay across the state which has exacerbated the socioeconomic crises, caused by wanton neglect of the rural dwellers”.
“Edo people can only score Governor Godwin Obaseki and his PDP with the works done or undone in tangible pillars such as roads, schools, hospitals, agriculture, land administration, culture, and relationship with our treasured traditional institutions when they will be casting their votes for freedom on September 21.
“No analysis of junk data coming from any onlooker, observing from his armchair in Lagos, Abuja or anywhere outside Edo State will abort the plan of stakeholders to own their destiny.”
He said Edo people would not allow rent seekers to peddle plagiarized figures and data that do not reflect the physical conditions in Edo State.
“The statement made by our State Chairman, Jarret Tenebe that Edo State has been pushed below poverty line by Governor Obaseki and as such, majority of the poor rural dwellers are unable to buy Android phones or data, aptly defines the miserable hardship that has been caused by the PowerPoint administration of PDP in Edo State”.
Omo-Ojo said it is unethical for pseudo-commentators to make spurious judgements on the state of affairs in Edo, except someone who has gone round the 18 local government areas.
According to him, PDP leaders and Governor Obaseki may disagree with Tenebe that the rural Edo people who are in the majority, do not watch Arise Television because of their inability to afford pay-per-view television digital set or buy data but only the poor whose rice and other grains were diverted can decide on their life survival strategies.
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