The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 21 election in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has promised to run a practical administration if elected, News About Nigeria reports.
He promised this while speaking during the flag-off of a medical mission by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Akamkpa, Cross River, on Monday.
The senator representing Edo Central in the 10th Assembly and a member of the Senate Committee on NDDC also noted that he will adopt a bottom-up approach to running the affairs of the state.
He also promised to run a government the people can relate to, unlike what is currently available in the governance of the state.
The APC candidate, who bemoaned the lack of infrastructural development across the 18 local government areas of Edo, promised to reenact the Adams Oshiomhole infrastructural revolution.
He said that an emergency will be declared on roads, schools, and health infrastructure in the state.
“Unlike what is currently obtainable in the governance of the state, our administration will be practically driven, a governance that the people can relate with, a true people’s government in the real sense.”
“We are set for that; if you look at the state, there is nothing you can say; this is what the present governor has done for us.
“We will be taking a holistic approach to correct the decaying roads, schools, and health infrastructure that have been left unattended to by the Godwin Obaseki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“If the Obaseki-led administration had built upon what the government of Adams Oshiomhole did, Edo would have been competing with states like Lagos in terms of development.
“Our mission is to hit the ground running from day one and make Edo a better place, a place we can actually call our own, a place that everybody will be happy to see,” he stated.
