Edo Guber, APC Candidate, Monday Okpebholo Blames Bad Governance in Nigeria on Citizens Who Vote the Wrong Person for Money

By Editor 

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the Edo State September 21st gubernatorial election, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has on Tuesday, blamed bad governance in the country on Nigerians who always vote the wrong people into office after collecting money during elections. 

He stated this while addressing Progressive Youths in Edo State during an interactive session in Benin City. 

Okpebholo while promising to change the narratives for good, declared “We are going to provide practical governance, we are going to turn Edo State to into a construction site”, just he promised that “in the next few days you will see free transport”.

He told the youths to choose between darkness and light and elect a man they can trust to carry out good governance, saying “the ball is in your court, your progress is in your hands, your tomorrow is in your hands”.

The APC candidate who told his life story at the event, said “If really we need Edo of our dream, we need to make sacrifice”, pointing out that Governor Godwin Obaseki’s failure has provided him the manifesto to provide good education, good healthcare, tackle insecurity, provide industries and employment for the people of the state. 

Okpebholo announced scholarships award to two youths at the event and one million naira support with additional N100,000 monthly stipend to a woman who was reportedly sacked from the state Service for supporting him.

Besides, he promised to pay lecturers of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) backlogs of salaries owed them and restore the institution to its lost glory if elected governor. 

Earlier, a leader of the party, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, had stated that youths were the engine room of election because they are  the ones who mobilize, vote and defend the votes, lamenting that after elections they are usually forgotten. 

He said the interactive session was convened for the youths and the candidate to reach a mutual understanding. 

He said the performance of Obaseki is a far cry from the huge allocations he received from the Federation Account, adding that the governor has failed in all sectors of the state. 

Pastor Ize-Iyamu explained that array of politicians in the state were rallying support for Okpebholo because of Obaseki’s failure any the APC candidate’s people-oriented programme, describing Okpebholo as “redemption for Edo State”.

On his part, Director General of the APC Campaign Council, Sen. Matthew Urhoghide, while describing the event “as strategic and organic support” to the party, called on Edo people to right their political history, adding that the party needs the youths as partners in the election project to salvage Edo State. 

Apparently referring to PDP claim that Okpebholo does not speak good English, Urhoghide said “We are not interested in grammar but performance”.