The Edo North Senatorial District chapter of the support for the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), has thrown its weight behind the candidate of the All Progresives Congress (APC), for the September 21,2024, governorship election in the state, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa.
This was just as the union appealed to the APC governorship candidate to bring development to their area which the NURTW said had been neglected by the present administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki.
While promising to support and vote for Senator Okpebholo in the election, the group also asked him to revoke the allocation of a huge expanse of land acquired by Governor Obaseki in the district under the guise of putting up Leventis Farm on it.
Reiterating the NURTW request on the revocation of the acquired land, a community leader from the district, Malam Ali Abdulrasaq, also called on Governor Obaseki to return the land to the community and owners .
Abdulrasaq said that the people would be very happy if the APC camdidate would reversed the allocation of the large expanse of land when elected.
“Governor Obaseki took the land claiming that he wants to put Leventis. That story is not real. When you become Governor, if the land is not reversed before then, please help us to reverse that decision taken by Obaseki because the owners of the plots of land did not agree with him but because he is the governor he forcefully collected the land from them.” Abdulrasaq pleaded.
In his response, Senator Okpebholo assured the people of Edo North that he would bring development to the area and even try to surpass the standard set by the former Governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole in the area.
He regretted that the incumbent governor had failed to build up on the successes and solid foundation laid by Oshiomhole.
The APC governorship flag bearer bemoaned the lack of development in all the senatorial districts due to the large scale of decadence that greeted him everywhere he had visited
Buoyed by these ugly tales, he called on Obaseki to tell Edo people what he had done with the several billions of Naira the government had borrowed and the federal allocation to the state.
According to him, the Governor Obaseki should show the people projects he claimed he had executed in the state because every where he had gone to campaign, the people complained that there was nothing the government had done for them.
“The government should show the projects with the money he borrowed not to talk of the money from the Federal government allocation accruing to Edo State.
He insisted that “the onus of morality and integrity hangs on Obaseki to show to the people what he has done with the over N500 Billion borrowed and other monies collected so far from different sources”.
Okpebholo assured Edo North people that their request would be given prompt attention, just as he promised to improve the welfare of the people and to bring development to Edo North.
