
The Minister for Nigeria Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Abubakar Momoh on Thursday asked the Edo State citizens to hold Governor Godwin Obaseki responsible for allegedly hoarding the palliative rice from the Federal Government meant for the poor in the state.
He accused Obaseki of keeping the rice and re-bagging it with the label of the Edo State government and a picture of Asue Ighodalo.
Momoh stated this in Auchi during the Edo Senatorial APC flag-off campaign in Auchi, Headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Council Area.
According to the Minister who spoke on Channel Television live interview about the rice given to the Edo State government, the state government refused to give it to the Edo people that it was meant for.
” Obaseki denied Edo People palliative rice which the federal government gave to him to distribute to the poor people.
” I will show people what NDDC has done in the state when we start a ward-to-ward campaign,” he stated.
On his part, The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo promised to create over 5000 jobs for the youths in the state within the first hundred days in office.
According to the APC candidate, development will start from where former governor Adams Oshiomhole stopped.
Okpebholo promised to create a peaceful environment in the state as kidnapping and other various vices will go with the Obaseki-led government.
A former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole in his remarks said PDP has no candidate. He said.
” PDP as a party has no candidate as we talk, the federal high court Abuja has said so.
“The process that brought Asue Ighodalo in the primaries was also faulted by the federal high court in Abuja, so don’t go and waste your vote for PDP.”
According to him, the Edo State government led by Governor Godwin Obaseki deceived the World Bank to collect money for Edo Best, but there is nothing to show for it.
” The World Bank may have been used to collect money, Edo People will not pay, we must tell Obaseki to show where he used the money.”