Obaseki Reacts As Edo APC Mocks Him For Abandoning Governance To Build PDP Structure

THE Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of abandoning governance in his bid to build a political structure in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Addressing a press conference at the party secretariat in Benin City, State chairman of the APC, Col David Imuse (rtd) accused Governor Obaseki of celebrating phantom projects while his counterparts across the country were commissioning development projects.

He also accused the governor of piling huge debts on the state.

The allegations were immediately dismissed by the government which accused the APC and its leadership of being jesters.

The state Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Adaze Emwanta lamented that the APC in the state was blind and were not in a position to see the good things the government was doing.

Addressing the press, Imuse said:

“Edo state has been left to drift. The educational system, for example, is in a coma while the health services sector has collapsed. Infrastructures are at various levels of fermentation while insecurity has become the order of the day. Pensioners are being deprived of their legitimate earnings while local governments administration have been rendered useless and dysfunctional by his decision not to conduct elections of chairmen and councilors.

“It is the same government that has plunged Edo into debts and is now planning to take additional loans.

 “Without a state legislature, Mr. Obaseki has since he assumed office for a second term increased the domestic debt of the state by an additional N50 billion, from N81, 750,262,718.83 in 2021. This is exclusive of State’s foreign debt of over $280million from available records.

“Unfortunately, these loan transactions are done covertly and for nebulous projects whose scopes, utilities, locations and contractors are largely vague.

The APC chairman also mocked Governor Obaseki for allegedly bringing the PDP National Chairman to the state to commission mini Jetty for ‘canoes and uncompleted motor park’ when according to him his counterparts were commissioning flyovers, besides the allegation of abandoning governance to build a PDP structure.

Emwanta, however, dismissed the claims saying:

“The baggage of lies of the lmuse-led Edo APC is never empty of mischief. The lie lmuse concocted that the Edo State Government is about to source for a N7 billion facility from the capital market to fund an already completed street light project can only come from an idle mind that is remotely controlled by the devil.

“Why didn’t Imuse talk about the Ossiomo Independent power plant, the Edo tech park, the new civil service buildings with fibre optic connectivity, the long stretch of newly constructed roads leading to the new towns in the lrhirhi-Aruogba – Ogheghe axis, the Ugboha water project, and the gains recorded by the Edo Geographic Information Service in encouraging transparent land administration in the state?”

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