Adams Oshiomhole,
Governor of Edo State says the PDP has begun a campaign of lies to deceive the
people and further impoverish them since they have no real record of
performance to present to Nigerians. He made this known at the commissioning of
the Auchi-Jattu-Afashio-Ikabigbo road on Thursday
Governor said,
“in the next couple of weeks, in fact the season is already here, politicians
are already into marketing. Politicians are making deliberate efforts to remove
the issues of development from political discourse. They prefer to discourse
issue of ethnicity where you come from, where I come from. They prefer to
buffet us with issues of religion, primordial sentiments and all kinds of
ridiculous issues. But what you the electorate must insist on is that sixteen
years after democracy, the learning curve is over.
“If you were
doing apprentice and you have not gotten your freedom after sixteen years, your
case is hopeless. If you were pursuing a university degree and after sixteen
years, you could not obtain a degree you would be advised to withdraw. Sixteen
years of democracy, we cannot continue to do trial and error governance.
“We must now
approach governance on the basis of skills, competence and courage. We must
have clarity of industrial policies that are not contradictory, policies
designed to reduce and bring Nigeria back to work and give work to our young
people. We must move away from the tradition where we engage in fraud in the
name of Sure-P and give to individuals to share so that we might use them as
thugs.
Oshiomhole argued
that, “we must move away from empowering individuals to building institutions.
When politicians come to ask you to vote for them like I was reading today
where somebody said he was going to provide bursary to our students we must ask
them when you were here for ten years, how many people did you give bursary to.
Did you have primary schools in Auchi with red roofs?
“In the next few
weeks, we will be commissioning a number of schools in Auchi and I will be
doing so with much arrogance. This is because whatever they say is not
possible, we have shown that it is possible. The previous government created an
environment that would lead to a dynasty of the poor. Where the poor man gives
birth to another poor, where the labourer gives birth to the labourer, because
they disconnected the ladder of upward mobility.
“How can there be
upward mobility if in my village there was no school. How could I have become a
governor as the son of a cassava woman? The only ladder of upward mobility is
that we must have quality education even in the remotest part of our community.
But even in the heart of Benin City they dumped our children in classrooms
without roofs. We had potholes in our classrooms and we had primary one and two
competing for space”, he noted.
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