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As e dey sweet us, e dey pain them...
Vote PDP all the way...

Who is like unto Obaseki, among the Governors non is like thee. Doing wonders all over Edo state.

Obaseki is too much oo. See laudable projects scattered over Edo state.
We need him to finish what he has started.

We shall support Gov. Godwin Obaseki to finish strong on his legacy projects...
PDP for House of Assembly in this forth coming election.

My eyes have seen the glory of Edo state in my lifetime. I once believed that God had forsaken Edo state because of the crop of leaders we had in the past.
Then came the man that combines intellectual sagacity with realism ascending into the office of Governor and caused a developmental catabole by the conversation of Edo from a construction site to completion time.
Gov Obaseki with PDP is enough for Edo.

I wonder what APC is using to campaign? They promised heaven and earth but instead they have made Nigeria the poverty capital of the world.

PDP all the way....

Edo state knows what is good for them and we say Capital letter NO! to APC and it's leaders in Edo government.

PDP is our state party and we will vote them again and again.

Obaseki knows that Edos just needs a government that works and can deliver for them.
We shall vote the PDP...

This forth coming election in Edo shall be a show of the entrenchment of democracy and G. O. Obaseki has ignited it by this action of his...

Vote PDP! the truly democratic party...

Too much oppression and corruption has made people forget the power they possess...

Government is suppose to appeal for support and not to rig elections or coarse the people.
If Obaseki is doing that then he is a true domcrats...

APC members disguising as Obedients...

The major achievement of Obaseki is the biblical mandate of God himself in Genesis. Let there be light! Obaseki built a power plant, transmitted and distributed electricity to major street lights, government offices and facility within Edo. This is outstanding! Our vote is for PDP this forth coming elections...

Oshiomole and his party the APC has no justification to speak against and Obaseki. Everyone joined him against Godfathers but he later became the Godfather that never assumed office...

I feel panic when i see a people that have desired freedom so badly and troubled the heavens with their prayer request. God in his gracious nature discomfits the enemy, sends a deliverer from among them in person of Gov. Godwin Obaseki. But sadly, some people are now clamoring to return back to their taskmasters (APC & POI) and enslave their generations because of material wishes and promises. May the Lord forgive them for they know not what they do...
Obaseki is our choice in Edo.

Dr Amegor Rock has spent most of his personal, career and business experience to help bridge the social gap that exist within the confines of his society.

As a primary school pupil, he was known for bringing about equality and fighting for the oppressed. Through his specialization as a family physician at the national hospital, he was involved in many hands-on experience with non-profit and public sector environment. He understands the principles of businesses that brings about longevity, desirability and profitability.

He received his university education at the University of Benin and certification from various colleges including the Mayo Clinic and research institute

Dr Rock is currently the Director General of the Edo State Health Insurance Commission

After deposing a king over a traditional issue in the past, now you are back to that same king for support without apology, even almighty God distaste such behavior. Oshiomole you cannot eat you cake and have it.

Barr. Jimon Ijegbai, Commissioner for Education will be on our livestream today at 11am to discuss how Governor Obaseki’s Educational policy is transforming our Educational sector in Edo State.

EDPA

Isoken Omo is the Executive Chairman of the Edo Development and Property Agency (EDPA).

She attended the River State University of Science and Technology, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State and obtained a B.Tech degree in Estate Management in 1992. She also obtained an MBA in 1999 from the prestigious University of Hull, United Kingdom. She holds a Certificate in Executive Strategy for Results from London Business School (LBS).

She has over three decades of experience in the built environment in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. She joined ASO Investment and Development Company (AIDC) Limited as the Managing Director/CEO and delivered affordable housing projects in Cross River, Ondo, Oyo and Abia States.

Running EDPA in the last three years, she has led the development of the 70-hectare Emotan Gardens Estate, JARA mall as well as the revamp of assets managed by EDPA in Abuja, Lagos, Delta and Edo State.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, the quiet unassuming builder we cannot afford to gamble with-- By Paul Nosa Ogiehor.


Electioneering in Nigeria is mostly driven by sentiments not hard facts. Who can make the loudest noise? Who can run an intense campaign and who can outsmart the other in ground work mobilisation, etc?

I have always said that builders don’t usually have their eyes on the next election round; they are focused on the next generation. Builders don’t play in the slow lane of history; they are targeting long term investments that will transcend several generations.

Governor Obaseki, in just under 45 months, has been able to lay the ground work that will transform Edo forever.

This sounds rather upbeat as people will say it is not in my usual style to sing praises of anyone let alone politicians with unpredictable mood swings, but throughout this campaign, I have repeatedly said I will endeavour to remain neutral and free to have the legitimacy that comes from expressing a public sentiment rather than an institutional interest.

In reaching this conclusion, I have carefully examined his actions and policy choices and I have narrowed my lens to these key challenges:
•Increases in human capital, proxied here by average education levels across the adult population;
•total factor productivity growth, which is driven by technological progress and adoption;
•actual real and nominal growth in capacity building and in expanding the frontier of socioeconomic development and
•expanding the building blocks of development for others to build on.
The emerging facts are compelling and groundbreaking.

There are, of course, many angles to look at his trajectory of growth from, without any insinuating bias or cloudiness of any kind.

One of such area is to consider his scorecard against his predecessor with unfettered hope that his performance has been consistent and does hold in the long run, at least approximately, as is demonstrably the case, in the short and near terms.

Governor Obaseki’s development choices are less silos and less fragmented compared to his predecessors’ especially in approach and methods.

There is clearly a blueprint of integrated development and a vision with a road-map that can be measured against.

One key performance indicator has been a shift in all major indices. In health, Governor Obaseki met a situation with 3 doctors to 10,000 people and has progressively improved that to now 8 doctors to 10,000 in a period of time when the national average fell from 2.5 to 2 to 10,000 residents.

Though still less than the world’s average of 15 doctors to 10,000, that is a remarkable fete bearing in mind that all the other 35 states have seen a decline.

Just this morning, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released quarterly unemployment figures. Governor Obaseki met Edo unemployment rate at 39 percent in 2016 and has progressively improved it every quarter since then. Q2 on Q1 (2020) saw a big jump from 25.1 percent to 19 percent despite the impact of COVID-19 and the spiral tailspin of global economic outlook since March of this year.

That is an unbelievable achievement.

Nationally, unemployment has worsened. Edo now effectively has the lowest unemployment rate in South South geopolitical zone with Akwa Ibom at 45.2, Bayelsa at 27.8, Cross River at 31.6, Delta 40.3 and Rivers at 43.7.

Edo receives the lowest allocation from FAAC compared to these states and has by far less collateral assets compared to them.

Effectively, since 2016, Governor Obaseki’s administration, according to the NBS figures, has created a little shy of 250,000 jobs in a state that’s widely seen as a “civil service” state.

Edo, starting from a lower level of economic development has demonstrated a better and faster catch-up potential than the rest of the states. A key outcome of the future prevalence of Edo State will be the sheer speed at which it is growing.

If this trend continues, by 2032, the size of Edo economy will be greater than all other 5 South South states put together, assuming it will continue to pursue broadly growth policies. The broad trends identified should be relatively robust to variations in those other states.

That is transformational!
Nowhere has Governor Obaseki reforms been more profound than in the key sector of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). In just only 3 years, IGR has grown by 500 percent making Edo the second revenue generator in Nigeria on per capital basis without layering the tax regime with double taxation.

In fact, tax-per-person, especially in the informal sector which was riddled with collection fraud and theft before he came, has actually been lowered. Commercial bus drivers, who used to pay 2400 Naira per day to Agberos, now pay only 800 Naira per day directly to government through the POS system.

Governor Obaseki’s adoption of technology in this area has not only stopped the fraud but it has lowered the tax burden on individual contributors and has at the same time increased revenue generation to treasury five-fold.

If Edo can sustain the right kind of institutional framework to support growth, as it is currently doing, in 5 light years, Edo will increase its IGR to twenty times its current level and the spiral effect of that will be unprecedented economic growth never before experienced anywhere in the global southern hemisphere. I can take a bet on that!

A recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report described Edo pivotal reforms in basic education as transformational. Better known as EdoBEST, this reform program in education has drawn the attention of world leaders and it continues to be the benchmark for other states to key into.

The WEF said teachers in Edo are able to do in a semester what they used to teach in 5 years. This is not only driven by technology but as well, by process re-engineering of the five pillars of work: governance, teacher training and development, community partnerships, infrastructure, and the local education board.

The impact is phenomenal.
Several institutional reforms in several sectors are all coming together as ONE VISION birthing growth programmes like Edo Innovation Hub, Edo Industrial Park, Edo Land Reforms (GIS), too numerous to mention. Not to mention the recently commissioned OSSIOMO Power project that will free up 55 megawatts of energy to the national grid. 4 states, including Edo and Ondo that BEDC currently serves, together have a capacity of 40 Megawatts.

OSSIOMO would have been enough to power 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity in Edo if not for the shared national demand. Governor Obaseki is building clusters of many power projects to target specific public buildings and services.

And you have a strand of numerous projects with huge economic impact that are either nearing completion or at implementation stage. Gelegele Seaport will redefine business transactions for Edo and Delta states when completed.

The refinery at Ologbo will fuel the engine of further growth and that is at 70 percent completion.
The whole landscape is dotted with one huge economic project or the other.

Edo is on the right track and given another few years with same mindset and trajectory, the story will be different.

If we do not get it right in this election, we will all live to regret it and generations to come, will bear the brunt.

Yes if possible and listen to him on the livestream to know what the governor has done

Ikponmwosa Osayande is the Senior Special Assistant to the Edo State Governor on Public Private Partnership. He is an accountant with B.Sc. and MBA degrees from the University of Texas at Dallas.

He is a Certified Public Accountant from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Some of the projects he is handling include 997.17 hectares Benin Enterprise Park project, which is being developed in collaboration with Mahindra Group and the Benin City River Port Project being developed by China Habour Engineering Company.
The port project involves three component parts, including the dredging of a 45 KM stretch of the Benin River to the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean, development of the port facility and construction and rehabilitation of 49.5KM road to the Benin By-pass.

Some other projects he has worked on include the Ugboha Water Scheme, Wacot Fertilizer Plant, Edo State Auto Park, Edo State Theme Park, which are in various stages of design and work in progress.

Newly Constructed Odigie-Oyegun Public Service Training Centre in Benin City, Edo State.
Governor Godwin Obaseki is the ANSWER to our cries to God Edo State...

This is appalling! instead of Ize iyamu a benin man, to join hands with his kinsman Gov. Godwin Obaseki to develop Edo state that is in dire need of infrastructure and human capital development, he is busy fighting everyone just because he wants to be a Governor. Look at all the scandals around him even as an ecclesiastical minister. All these stigma will remain with him for life

Chris Ojeikere

Have you seen Ize Iyamu's deputy governorship candidate(s) before? I bet you won't recognise them the second time, indeed, for the third time. The men have an uncanny genius for reincarnation; depending on where they are operating. And trust me, they are smooth operators. For instance, Can you beat this?

"APC Deputy Governorship Candidate’s Details:

1) Voter's Card Reads AUDU ABDUL GANIYU.

2) WASSCE/GCE Certificate Reads AUDU AHUDU GANEYU.

3) APC Membership Card reads AUDU GANI.

Edo APC governorship candidate is Three-In-One Human Being."

So, you see, we might just have ended up with triplets for deputy governorship candidates. No thanks to the All Progressive Confusion. This wuruwuru to the answer people, who have never done anything straight in their lives are set to treat us to one of their endless recipe soon, when the courts finally asks them to supply which of the Gan is NIYU or NEYU or UDU or even HUDU? The scenes seem to be getting more confusing abi? And frankly, I think we had better stop here, because as I tried to look too deeply into the matter, there seems to be other split personalities peeping out unaccounted for.

So, yes the men have cases to answer, though there will never be an opportunity for Godwin Obaseki to benefit from the man's tripartite personalities, since the election would have already determined Godwin Obaseki as Governor.

But this leash around the waist of these SEVERAL Gani Audus, is very important to help them maintain some degree of soberness, instead of running around and making this hollow sound that produces no music, nor morality.

However, the biggest head ache for Edo people now is how to trace the identities of those filling the slot of APC's deputy governorship position, since only one man can fill the slot at a time. So Edo is wondering: is one or two Gans going to step down for the others? Or are they going to have a duty roaster as they had when APC had four national chairmen runnin shift duty? Or, again, are they going to resolve it by having a caretaker committee of deputy governorship candidates as they have done at the national office, in the wisdom of their national officers and NOT the wisdom of their written constitution?

Well aIl I can say now to you my Edo people is, stay tuned! Don't touch that dial.

I was expecting to see pictures of Ize Iyamu achievements in Edo State in particular and Nigeria in general rather, you showing me this! tell us how this particular incidence will translate into victory at the polls when Nigerians are already fed up with the APC government. judgement day is at hand...

Lets Go Further...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki.

I remember! Gov. Obaseki snapped a lot of photographs like the one above but still Oshiomole frustrated him out of the party to a winning party. So if you think you can win Edo state election by snapping with the president, i wish you good luck. Even though the president is fortunately a member of the APC, as president he is like a royal father that wishes all his subjects well. So, Ize Iyamu, Anslem Ojeazua (Edo State APC chairman) has reiterated that they do not have a candidate for the Edo State governorship election. therefore i will advice that you go and settle your scores with the state party than going around snapping photographs...

Lets Go Further...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki

*Why I will not see Ize-Iyamu – Buhari*

*___I cannot be seen with someone my administration is prosecuting in court for N700 million loot*

*__We would allow Edo people decide.”*

*Details below*��

https://edo-magazine-news-info..com/2020/08/i-cannot-see-ize-iyamubuhari.html