The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih, says he is confident that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) will be defeated in the September Governorship poll.
In an interview with Vanguard newspaper, the chieftain spoke extensively on Edo politics and what he has achieved before bowing out of office this month.
He commented on the chances of the PDP in the forthcoming governorship election and how the party would utilise the crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to return to power in the state.
“The APC came in under falsehood and propaganda promising people all sorts of things. They said there will be no ticketing. Oshiomhole said no to agbero, no to godfather but everything they told us they are doing the opposite and Edo people are worst for it.”
“They are involved in an unending internal crisis which is avoidable because it is now obvious the problem in Edo APC is between a godfather and a godson even though the man who today is a godfather told us no to godfatherism. He has since assumed the title of a super godfather. The godson who is the Governor has refused to dance to the dictates of the godfather. That is the root of their problem.”
“Let us assume that is an internal matter between members of the APC. That quarrel is now affecting governance. I challenge you to tell me how many projects you have accompanied the Governor to commission. If you name three I will give you one million naira. We now have a situation where what it takes to assess governance is the number of MoUs or foreign trips by a governor who when the tension gets too much, he embarks on a foreign trip and nothing has come to the state in terms of impacting on development of the state.”
“They have used their internal crisis to bring the vehicle of development to a halt. They have engaged the vehicle on a reverse gear. When you look at the background under which the APC came to power in Edo, the promises, the expectations and what we have now, you will weep for this state.”
According to Orbih, Edo State has suffered from the government of APC from the time of Oshiomhole till now and the way forward is that Edo people must vote them out of power.
“It was fashionable when they came to government to start saying PDP years in office. They have spent more years in government than the PDP and the problems in the state are multiplying. It is very clear now that they lack solutions to the problem facing our people.”
Lamenting the poor state of infrastructures, he said;
“What is happening at the new Specialist Hospital is another interesting development. When President Muhammadu Buhari was invited to commission the hospital, Oshiomhole declared that it was a five-star hospital. I struggled to believe that it was true. When I read the President was going for medical treatment, I thought he was coming to Bénin. When I took a patient there, I saw empty hall. No nurse, no staff. It was an empty hall they deceived the President to come and commission.”
