By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—EDO State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of recently commissioning projects not executed by his government in Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, insisting that the projects commissioned were executed by external interventionist bodies.

The party also accused the government of earmarking 86 churches for demolition in the state.

PDP explained that the projects commissioned by the governor were executed through a Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, intervention fund, TETFUND and the Christ Embassy Church, stating that the Oshiomhole administration has never started and completed any project in the university.

State Chairman of the party, Dan Orbih, who stated this in Benin at the party’s annual Widow Empowerment Programme, weekend, where bags of rice were given to hundreds of widows in the state, also accused the state government of intolerance to religious groups with its recent actions.

However, Mr. Donald Inwalomhe, who is the Research Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Cordelia Agbebaku, said the projects commissioned in the institution in November, 2015 were those sponsored and completed by the state government.

He said, “The governor in 2014 and 2015 released a grant of N250 million and N500 million respectively to the institution. The funds were used to complete the projects. The TETFUND and CBN projects are there. Some have been completed while others are still ongoing but they were never commissioned by the governor.”