Edo: APC Wants Osarodion Ogie To Declare Assets After 18 Years In Service

The campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 21 2024 governorship election in Edo State has put the erstwhile Secretary to the State Government and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP running mate, Osarodion Ogie to task over his assets.

The campaign council has asked him to declare his assets following 18 straight years in the government of Edo State.

In a press release he issued on behalf of the Council, Adaze Emwanta Esq, the Deputy Director of Publicity noted that Osarodion Ogie by submitting his belated letter of resignation has given formal notice of another search for the remainder of the golden fleece he left at Osadebe Avenue, Benin City. 

We of the APC Campaign demand public scrutiny of Ogie’s engagements with government and would be glad to have him present his code of conduct assets declaration form in the coming days, for public scrutiny.

This will be a better way to appreciate his trajectory as a public appointee in the 18 years he served in Edo State Government.

It is rather unfortunate to add that Ogie’s tenure as Secretary to the Edo State Government may have ended, but his letter of resignation is a smokescreen, which does not apply to his unconstitutional roles in the past one year as the de facto Deputy Governor of Edo State and Chairman of the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission(EDSOPADEC).

The APC Campaign said that @Ogie came into Benin with the portfolio of a serving Casino Manager from Lagos, into the Lucky Igbinedion administration mid-way, as a co-opted member/secretary of an ad-hoc Education Committee and remained in government for a cumulative period of over 18 years,” noting that he left with much speculated personal assets.

Emwanta further noted that “though he is not a public servant, but the outgone Secretary to government who is in his mid 60s knows that the official retirement age from public service is 60 years and if not for greed coupled with a sense of self-entitlement, he ought to humbly go into retirement, as Edo State Government House was not built to be inherited like a royal stool.”

Emwanta concluded by advising Ogie to be prepared to face the court of public opinion, a legion of NGOs and anti-graft agencies waiting to probe him for the role he played in the wanton mismanagement of public funds by the Godwin Obaseki administration, where-in he served as the de facto second in command.

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