favor914: Is this not Nigeria again? Honest truth Obaseki can never win, not with President Buhari (APC) as sitting president, he will need at least 80% of the votes to force a run off, which is impossible, low voter’s turn out on September 19th, no one cares about Obaseki, because there is no one who can claim Obaseki did anything for them, he will be easily rigged out of Government house, the same way he was rigged into power in 2016.
Rubbish , so Buhari/APC govt no dey when PDP dey snatch APC strongholds left, right and centre. All of these happened under Oshiomole as party chairman.
Pastor in the broom wielding coven of winches called the Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC? No wonder they embraced the acid-throwing cultist and thief with open arms.
RuudVanNisteroy: Adams Oshiomhole told the world that Ize Iyamu was a cultist who was rusticated after he deformed another student by pouring acid on him and also a thief who looted the state dry when he was Secretary to the State Government, under convicted thief Lucky Igbinedion.
dre11: FLASHBACK: Oshiomhole once wanted building named after Obaseki for ‘selfless service’
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), once said Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, worked for the state using his brain and creativity.
Oshiomhole, who praised the governor during the governorship campaign of 2016, said a building at the government house should be named after Obaseki for his selfless service.
Oshiomhole said while he was governor of Edo, Obaseki helped him build the economy team of the state with his network.
“I know my limit. He knows his limit. Godwin Obaseki has worked for seven and half years for the people of Edo state, using his brain, creativity, quietly, not making noise,” Oshiomhole said.
“He sits in the office of the economic team which he built using his network of friends inside the heart of government house without demanding one naira.
“A man like that who will not ask me to give him contracts, but will promise me, comrade, you just do the thinking, we will create the means to actualise your thoughts. And to his credit today, check the books of Edo state, we did not build new structures in government house with government money. That economic team office was built through Godwin’s network. Today, it remains a permanent asset of the state government.
“I want us to be calling that building Godwin Obaseki building. I don’t see your opponent Ize-Iyamu being able to say that. In 2007, check the records, Ize-Iyamu was hiding from EFCC. He didn’t not vote. How can somebody who didn’t vote claim that he made me.
“If you have to look at Godwin and his credentials and you look at a man whose only work, by his CV, was a student and rusticated for two years, he read law but he is not a barrister. That is his foundation. I never gave him government job. Lucky Igbinedion’s mother was reported to have slapped Ize-Iyamu for misleading her son. He tried it with me, but we kept him away. Nothing near government circle. No access to public funds.
“Look at the road to his house, in our books, was dual carriage way. They took the money, constructed the road to his house and stopped. Although we have liquidated the godfathers politically, the entire political family will be liquidated.”
favor914: Soo correct, bet my top Dollar, Obaseki will be disgraced come September 19th, Obaseki knows he is finished, and should have taken the Ambode Option as a man, as he who fights & runs away lives to fight another day, Obaseki is APC through & through, it is ludicrous & impossible to purport fighting the party that gave you power & expect to be victorious?, Oshiomhole will definitely forgive his man Obaseki, Shaibu is the ingrate that may have to move to Lokoja, or Ibadan.
favor914: Is this not Nigeria again? Honest truth Obaseki can never win, not with President Buhari (APC) as sitting president, he will need at least 80% of the votes to force a run off, which is impossible, low voter’s turn out on September 19th, no one cares about Obaseki, because there is no one who can claim Obaseki did anything for them, he will be easily rigged out of Government house, the same way he was rigged into power in 2016.
Have you been living under a rock with your eyes closed and ears blocked?
When you are done reading, kindly enumerate 10 things Oshiomole, Lucky, and by extension Ize Iyamu did for the same State while they held sway.
After that, do well to point out Obaseki's sins.
I honestly want to know what he did wrong. I am mon-partisan, whatever will grow Edo is all I'm up for.
Thanks.
The following are a list of some achievements of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-Led Government grouped under the six thematic pillars of the state:
1) Economic Revolution 2) Infrastructural Development 3) Institutional Reforms 4) Social Welfare Enhancement 5) Environmental Sustainability 6) Culture and Tourism
1. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
• Edo Job Initiative; over 150,000 beneficiaries • Establishment of Edo Innovation Hub, popularly referred to as “The South-South Silicon Valley”; over 22,000 beneficiaries • Creation of Edo Production Center to drive industrial development and create jobs • Launch of Edo State Oil Palm Program (ESOPP); N69 billion committed by the CBN • 10,000 hectares across 3 senatorial districts adopted for rice production • Remodeling and re-equipping of the Government Science and Technical College (GSTC)
2. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
• Emotan Garden Housing; 100 out of 1,440 units completed • Establishment of Jara Mall • New automated model for revenue collection; implementation of the Edo Revenue Administrative System (ERAS) • Ugboha/Uromi and Auchi water projects • Construction of the Edo State Secretariat complex, Block C and Block D has been completed. • Construction/Renovation of roads across the 3 senatorial districts of the state including; 368 road contracts awarded; 274 road projects completed including: Construction of Lucky Way - Irhirhi-Aruogba-Obazagbon-Ogheghe Road - Rehabilitation of Secretariat Road, Igarra - Textile Mill Road (ongoing) - Ugbor-Amagba (ongoing) - Ekaewan Road (ongoing) - Road construction project at Obakhavbaye (ongoing). - Rehabilitation of Uzebba-Ukpoje-Akagbor Road - Construction of Orhodua Bridge • Reduced cost of Certificates of Occupancy to N50,000 • Renovation of High Court Complex • Tayo Akpata University, Abudu Campus (ongoing) • Ossiomo Power Plant; 55 megawatt capacity (ongoing) • Azura-Edo 461 MW open cycle gas turbine power station • Inauguration of Benin River Port, Gelegele project • Creation of Edo Modular Refinery (ongoing) • Construction of Ikpoba River dam • Establishment of Benin Enterprise Park (ongoing) • Renovation of Oba Akenzua Cultural Center • Construction of Judges Quarters (ongoing) • Construction of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Iguoriakhi (ongoing) • Laying of fiber optic for faster internet speeds with collaboration with MainOne; 450km street by street fibre deployed in Benin City. • Construction of modern car park.(ongoing)
3. INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
• Wabizigan launched: launch of new security architecture and implementation of Security Management Information System. • Implementation of State Integrated Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS) • Development and passage of a consolidated Public Financial Management (PFM) and Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) for better financial management. • Inauguration of Industrial Court in Edo State. • Implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy for better control of Government’s resources. • New and better EDSTMA: The Edo State Traffic Control and Management Agency (EDSTMA) has been revamped and repositioned for better service delivery to citizens. • Contributory Pension Scheme for local government workers established. • Eradication Community Development Associations (CDA’s) from our communities and stopped Agberos from collecting revenues for Edo State Government. • Creation of online website "EdoMonitorMe" Portal for transparency and monitoring of projects.
4. SOCIAL WELFARE ENHANCEMENT
• Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EDOBEST) programme: implementation of modern teaching techniques and technology. • Over 11,000 teachers trained across the state • Edo State Sports Commission Bill passed into law and Edo State Sports Commission established • Over a million textbooks distributed across the state • Establishment of Edo State Task Force on Human Trafficking to curb irregular migration and human trafficking • Launch of Edo State Health Insurance Scheme to quality and affordable health care services for citizens. • Twenty primary healthcare centers revamped. • New Central Hospital opened • Renovation and facilities upgrade of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium • Violence against Persons Bill has been signed into law to addres
5. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
•Commencement of reclamation of erosion damaged embankment along Upper Mission Road by Temboga. • Remediation measures in Auchi through the Nigeria Erosion Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP). • Operation Clean up Edo Project has put in place to prevent indiscriminate dumping of waste
6. CULTURE AND TOURISM
• Successful hosting of the 2019 National Festival for Arts and Culture. • Reintroduction of Culture Clubs in public schools
GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI’S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID – 19 SCREENING AND TESTING
• Primary Health-care centres spread across the 18 LGAs, with 62 designated screening centres • Private Health-care centres across Benin City with 40 designated as screening centres across Benin City. • Mobile Screening centres across 6 LGAs, with 78 Screening point spread across respective wards: 12 wards respectively in Oredo and Etsako-West LGA, 10 wards respectively in Egor, Ikpoba-Okha, Esan West and Ovia North-East LGA. • 64,200 persons have been screened via mobile screening centres, with 2,361 suspected cases with samples collected. 51% Male screened and 49% Female. • 212,000 persons screened via the fixed screening centres (Private and Primary Health-care Total of 276,200 persons screened so far.
FACILITIES • Setting up and equipping of 3 isolation facilities in Stella-Obasanjo Hospital, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, and Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. • Purchase and installat of 2 new PCR machines at Stella-Obasanjo Hospital and University of Benin Teaching Hospital. • Purchase 18,000 Rapid Testing Kit (RTK). • Acquisition of 4 Autoclave machines • Establishment a Covid-19 support call centre to manage questions and quarries from citizens. • Upgrade of Emergency Operation Center (EOC) at the Hospital Management Board complex with support from the USAid department carried out an TRAINING • Training of 4,218 health personnel to effectively fight the COVID-19. • Special training to be organized for Helpline call attendants. Public health experts to be included as trainers. MOTIVATION • H.E Godwin Obaseki approved a hazard allowance ranging from N90,000 to N300,000 for frontline health worker.
Pls was these not part of the reason aonarch was dethroned in the North?
What of if Obaseki win I'm sure something strange to Edo monarch establushment might occur eventually because suspension and dethronement its inevitable.
Olichoke: On a different development, what's is the relationship between the Igarra people of Edo state and the Igala people of Kogi state? There is Attah of Igala and Atta Igu of Igarra people. I love studying histories and cultures. Kindly clarify me if you know their meeting points and departure points. Or is it a coincidence of names?
It is all just a coincidence in sounds. Atta Igu is different from Attah while Igala is different from Igarra.
I learned that the so called Traditional ruler is not recognised by his people of Igarra. They want Ize-Iyamu to recognise him because he is the father of Edo APC campaign chairman, John Mayaki. When young people don't want to live long, they allow power to becloud their reasoning faculty. To the point that they value their wishes more than the tradition of the land. EZIOBE is a minority group and they will remain minority in the land of Igarra. The former Chief of staff to Obaseki is from this same minority group of Igarra. You guys understand why EZIOBE is mentioned and not the people of IGARRA. I got this response from an indigene of Igarra on FB
Whoever gave you this information fed you with lies. There are 15 kindreds in Igarra and nine of them make up Eziobes while five make up Eziezus with the 15th one being neither of them. Eziobes are therefore the majority and they recognize the Otu of Igarra while Eziezus recognize their own head separately. That is how Igarra operates. The person who gave you the information above is obviously of the Eziezu stock. Please refer to page 36 of Last week Monday edition of The Nation Newspaper to see the facts set straight in response to a publication of lies which the Eziezus made and this person picked his point from.
Whoever gave you this information fed you with lies. There are 15 kindreds in Igarra and nine of them make up Eziobes while five make up Eziezus with the 15th one being neither of them. Eziobes are therefore the majority and they recognize the Otu of Igarra while Eziezus recognize their own head separately. That is how Igarra operates. The person who gave you the information above is obviously of the Eziezu stock. Please refer to page 36 of Last week Monday edition of The Nation Newspaper to see the facts set straight in response to a publication of lies which the Eziezus made and this person picked his point from.
It's really helpful to get to read both sides of a story, especially when it comes to politicking. Thanks for posting.
, so Buhari/APC govt no dey when PDP dey snatch APC strongholds left, right and centre. All of these happened under Oshiomole as party chairman.