BENIN — EDO State Chairman of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, yesterday, took a swipe at the National Vice Chairman (South-South) of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who had said that the crises within PDP and a godfather led to the failure of the administration of former governor, Lucky Igbinedion. Orbih said Ize-Iyamu was the principal actor in parties that contributed to the failing of the said administration. Describing his allegation as baseless and mischievous, he said Ize-Iyamu’s statement as the former Secretary to the State Government, SSG, to Lucky Igbinedion’s administration, had exposed the kind of people who were the nucleus of that government. Speaking with newsmen in Benin yesterday, Orbih insisted that for a man who was the SSG to say that the party then in power did not have a manifesto showed how shallow those who were at the centre of that administration were. He noted that since 1999, when PDP was voted into office, it always had a constitution and a manifesto that were subjected to amendments over the years, but regretted that for a Principal Officer of that government to say otherwise was very unfortunate. On The Godfather On the allegation that a godfather contributed to the failure of Igbinedion’s government, he said: “I want to state that looking at the profile of that government from 1999 up to the time they left office, there was no office or position created by that government which was supposed to be occupied by a godfather. “So they cannot blame their successes or failure on an imaginary godfather because they did not create any position to be occupied by a godfather. “But the lesson we must learn from the unguarded statement from Pastor Ize-Iyamu is that in whatever we do, we should do it with the fear of God and with the interest of the people at heart. They have served and they are out of office. ‘Apologies needed’ “What I could pick out from his statement is that on his own, he has publicly admitted that they failed as a government. What ought to have followed that admittance is an apology and not to look for innocent people to blame for their failures. “It is a mark of statesmanship for people to own up to their failures. He ought to have admitted that as Secretary to the State Government, it was not Lucky Igbinedion. “It was a collective responsibility of all the adults in that government. Also, I don’t want people to single out Lucky Igbinedion as the one that failed. They all failed.”

Meanwhile, GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said his government will give adequate support to groups and individuals involved in keeping the youths occupied positively as this would reduce the crime rate in the country. Speaking during a courtesy visit by a United States-based group, Access to Success, Oshiomhole said that part of the problem in the country was unemployment. He said: “Part of the problem in Nigeria today, like you have in America, is the problem of youth unemployment and because the youths are idle, some of them resort to crime and other activities which are quite dysfunctional. “Anything that will keep them busy, and encourage them to recognise that there is a future, and seeing people like you, they will believe that they also can overcome the poverty trap.”

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My people from edo how una take see am..

Let the best & the one that will have the masses of edo at heart emerge

Chai! wetin the Igbinedions use Edo people eye see eh, as in the word slavery is an understatement yet some still celebrate him and his family like their god.

Is this not PDP governorship candidate that edo people are yarning for?

The mistake Nigerians made in Buhari is about to repeat itself in Edo state. U say Oshiomhole is not good and about to elect somebody who contributed immensely to the failure of Igbinedion's govt. This time around he will not contribute. He would single handedly destroy the state.

This Edo brouhaha election will go down history as the worst election held after Rivers....

Let the people od Edo state choose, wisely.

You're excavating archived Vanguard news to whip up sentiments against Ize-Iyamu?

It wouldn't still stop impending embarrassment of APC in Edo.

Watch out!