We’ll produce 100 millionaires in four years — Obaseki
APC has lost touch with people — Ex-lawmaker
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 28 governorship election in Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, promises that if voted into power, his administration will produce more than 100 millionaires in the state in four years.
Obaseki stated this, yesterday, while speaking with the Grassroots Youth Initiative (GYI) in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, urging the people to use their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to actualise “the peoples-oriented plans already laid down by APC.”
He said successes recorded by the APC in the last eight years in Edo State were glaring, calling on electorate not vote for different political party.
“We are almost through with rebuilding of schools and we will finish them,” he said.
“But why are we doing schools? It is to correct all the mistakes that the PDP made in their years of governance that children didn’t want to go to school. Now, we have done it and we would get more teachers to teach the pupils and students.
“We are launching our programme on agriculture called ‘the anchor programme’. Edo has been selected for seven products, oil palm, rubber, cassava, maize, livestock, poultry and fishery. Government is going to support you all to excel.”
He said that he wished to be governor where people would not struggle to buy car, promising that his administration would produce 100 millionaires after four years.
On his part, the GYI President, Mr Osarobo Idahosa, said that they were ready to deliver votes for Obaseki , adding: “We are here to officially endorse you because we find you credible among other candidates.” A former PDP lawmaker in the Edo State House of Assembly, Friday Ogierakahi, says that the APC has lost touch with the people because of its “anti-people programmes since it came to power in 2015.”
The former lawmaker, who said this, yesterday, while addressing party stalwarts and supporters at Urhonigbe in Orhionmwon Local Government Area, urged the electorate to vote out the APC during the September 28 governorship election in the state.
He said that the APC-led administration at the federal level had refused to articulate clear policy direction close to two years in office, adding: “The implication of this is economic recession, collapse of the Naira, high food and commodity prices, increased crime wave and a general disillusionment on the part of Nigerians, irrespective of their social status.
“From the informal and formal opinion polls that have been conducted, the PDP and Pastor Osagie IzeIyamu maintain comfortable lead in the contest for the Edo governorship election.”
He, however, called on party supporters to be vigilant on the day of election.
Also speaking, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu commended party members across the state for their doggedness and resourcefulness, saying: “We wish to thank Edo people, whose overwhelming support for the PDP in our mutual desire to effect a change of governance for the liberation of our people from the manacles of an insensitive, irresponsible and visionless party has been our inspiration and encouragement.”