As the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State approaches, Mr. Oteghe Adams, a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged Edo citizens to vote for Asue Ighodalo.
He stated that Asue Ighodalo is the only contender who has concurrently released a manifesto that will positively engage the minds and subsequent good action of Edo citizens.
“There are supposedly two major candidates: Asue Ighodalo of the PDP, who has unveiled a well -thought out and manifestly transparent people-oriented Convenant with the electorate; on the other hand, there’s the Oshiomhole-led Monday Okphebholo, who has hardly made any independent public appearance of his own and much less to present his manifesto (if there was one) for public scrutiny and engagement.”
Oteghe Adams stated that the existential significance and historicity of the Governorship election on September 21st cannot be overstated.
“Asue Ighodaro has simultaneously launched a manifesto that will productively engage the thoughts and consequent positive action of Edo citizenry. From every strata of our society, for teachers and students, the civil servants and technocrats and market women to the Agricultural entrepreneurs, health workers and Labour advocates, Ighodalo’s document titled “Pathway to Prosperity for All” is the digestible evolutionary blueprint of Edo people’s Assembly. The manifesto, brightly illuminates the contours of Ighodalo intellectual and pragmatic reflections, projecting the wellbeing and qualitative life collectively for the people. Ighodalo’s Convenant gives respectable cognizance to fulfilling the basic needs of the people including enjoying good health, access to clean running water and buoyant living wage, but the manifesto contemporaneously points in the direction of securing Edo’s distinguished location in the globe of the 4th industrial digital revolution.”
While lamenting that Oshiomhole-Okpebholo’s APC has yet to release a manifesto for Edo people despite the fact that the election is less than 30 days away, he stated that the duo’s plan is to loiter and grovel around the presidential villa in order to secure the imprimatur of the Federal government in order to thwart the sovereign and sacred democratic will of the Edo people.
“The unmistakable warning signs are all evident, including the current wave of arrests and harassment of PDP members.”
Adams went on to say that “Edo people, under Governor Obaseki’s unparalleled progressive stewardship, have traveled too far across the treacherous wilderness and safely crossed the Red Sea into the land of economic stability and prosperity; no sane people want to return to the decades of squander and recklessness.
“The only way to ensure the uninterrupted continuation of the 8-year successful economic plan is to pass the baton to Asue Ighodalo’s strong and stable management hand. Osadebe House cannot be converted back into an open arena for political and economic pillage, as it was during the Oshiomhole administration.”
