Edo Decides: Shettima, Akpabio, Ganduje, Others Rap Up Campaign For APC

The Vice President, Kassim Shettima, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and nine All Progressives Congress (APC) governors including serving ministers and members of the House of Representatives on Saturday attended the mega rally of the party to rap up its campaign for the September 21 governorship election.


The governors present in the rally held at the University of Benin Sports Complex were the chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum and Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu, Ondo state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the Nasarawa governor Abdullahi Sule, Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwaolu, his Kogi State counterpart, Ahmed Ododo, Kwara State governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrahzak, Ogun State governor, Dapo Abioding and Jigawa State governor Umar Namadi.


Shettima said Edo State needs a strategic thinker, builder and a man with a compassionate heart that can lead his people right adding that intelligence is not determined by the size of the head but ability to solve problems that affect the people.

Shettima said he has “absolute confidence in Senator Monday Okpebholo and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people of the state” and urged the people of the state to come out in large numbers to vote for the candidates of the APC next Saturday.


He said the people don’t need somebody who can speak grammar but one who can perform.

On his part, Senator Akpabio said Okpebholo as a senator, has been living up to his billings in the Senate and that there is no doubt about his ability to deliver the dividends of democracy.


Addressing the crowd, former governor of the state, Sen. Adams Oshiomhole said Governor Godwin Obaseki “has been insensitive to the plights of the people of the state. There is nothing to write home about his eight years in office as the governor of the state.

“Markets that were burnt during his tenure were not rebuilt; rather the hospital and the state library have been converted into museums and a shopping mall, respectively.


On the part of the national chairman of the party, Umar Ganduje, he said the state has been mismanaged for the past eight years as it was marred with insecurity, and unemployment and that it is time for them to take it back by voting for the APC.


On the part of the governorship candidate of the party, Senator Monday Okpebholo, he said he would employ 5000 teachers within his 100 days in office as governor of the state.

He assured the market women of soft loans to boost their businesses just as he promised to build primary healthcare around the 192 wards in the state.


Earlier the national chairman of the party, Ganduje received a former senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Francis Alimikhena and the former member representing Oredo federal constituency, Engr. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the APC.

Alimikhena said he was glad to be back in the APC and that he was going to mobilize his followers to vote for the party in the forthcoming governorship election.


Ogbeide-Ihama, said he had earlier advised his former party, the PDP against its decision when it brought in Governor Godwin Obaseki in 2020 but they didn’t listen to him.

He also advised when they again brought in Asue Ighodalo, the governorship candidate of the PDP they still not listen to him