By SIMON EBEGBULEM

BENIN-DEPUTY Governor of Edo State , Dr Pius Odubu, has said that the April general elections in the state will be based on issues of development, promises fulfilled and not on “empty promises or goodluck.”

Also, governor of the state, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has urged the electorate to challenge those seeking their votes to show evidence of their good deeds to the people in the past.

Dr Odubu, who spoke during an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, rally in Benin City, said what the people were concerned about are issues of development, adding that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which ruled the state for ten years left the state poorer than they met it.

According to him, “the ACN government led by  Oshiomhole has been in the saddle for only two years but even the blind can hear and the deaf can see the massive transformation going on in different parts of the state.”

He appealed to the people, including the over 1,000 new members of the party, who decamped from the PDP not to be carried away by the electoral promises of the PDP candidates, saying the party has a track record of non-performance.

While addressing another rally at Okada, Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state, Governor Oshiomhole said those seeking elections into political offices should be asked to show evidence of what they did for their communities in the past.

Warning that any attempt to rig the next election would be resisted, Oshiomhole  said, “we are peace loving, but we will not be taken for granted. We will stop them from rigging as we are not ready to go to court this time around.”