Citing what he described as a well-articulated governance blueprint, a People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Mr Oteghe Adams, has asked the electorate to vote for the party's candidate Asue Ighodalo on September 21, 2024.
He said the development trajectory of Edo polity is currently overwhelmed with critical warning signals as the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Senator Adams Oshiomhole and the party's candidate Senator Monday Okpebholo's "locomotive conveying hazardous trash, approaches the heart of our political civilisation."
In a press statement he issued in Benin, Adams asked the Edo electorate to immune and insure itself against the unavoidable bad governance that the APC represents.
He said the existential weight and the historicity of the choice before the electorate in the September 21 governorship contest cannot be underestimated.
According to him, Ighodalo has unveiled a well -thought out and manifestly transparent people-oriented covenant with the electorate and should be elected the next governor of the state.
Adams said he was opposed to the Oshiomhole-led Monday Okphebholo because the APC candidate has never made any independent public appearance of his own and much less to present his manifesto (if there was one) for public scrutiny and engagement.
The PDP chieftain said on strategic keystones for the accelerated evolvement of a 21st Century eco-political powerhouse, Ighodaro had simultaneously launched a manifesto that will productively engage the thoughts and consequent positive action of Edo citizenry.
'From every strata of our society, for teachers and students, the civil servants and technocrats and market women to the agricultural entrepreneurs, health workers and labour advocates, Ighodalo's document titled: "Pathway to Prosperity for All" is the digestible evolutionary blueprint of Edo people's Assembly. "The manifesto, brightly illuminates the contours of Ighodalo intellectual and pragmatic reflections, projecting the wellbeing and qualitative life collectively for the people. Ighodalo's covenant gives respectable cognisance to fulfilling the basic needs of the people including enjoying good health, access to clean running water and buoyant living wage, but the manifesto contemporaneously points in the direction of securing Edo's distinguished location in the globe of the 4th industrial digital revolution," Adams asserted.
He alleged that Okpebholo is yet to unveil a manifesto for Edo people despite just about 30 days to the election.
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"Apart from scattered and unsuccessful rallies in parts of the state, the party has not shown any serious effort at electioneering. The surreptious plan of the duo is to tirelessly loiter and grovel around the presidential villa with the plot to secure the imprimatur of the federal government to thwart the sovereign and sacred democratic will of Edo people; the operators of the political harzardous trash locomotive are not preparing to legitimately count the September 21st votes but to crash the electoral process.
"The unmistakable warning signs are all evident including the current wave of arrests and harassment of PDP members by federal agents. Fortunately, for the Edo electorate, they have been forewarned in a way that empowers them to resolutely terminate and derail the wreckage train before it arrives anywhere close to the 21st September destination," Adams said.
