By Charles Kumolu

A leading governorship aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Mr Chris Ogiemwonyi, has said that the coming June congressional election will determine whether or not Edo people have truly imbibed the doctrine of “one- man one-vote,” even as he urged them to take their destinies in their hands.

Ogiemwonyi

Addressing Edo South delegates across the seven local governments of Oredo, Uhunwonde, Egor, Ikpoba-Okha, Orhiomwon, Ovia South-West and Ovia North-East, Ogiemwonyi said that people who acquire power through the back door were accountable only to their masters.

He promised to wipe out poverty from the state by engaging the jobless youths, who have certificates into the civil service and those who do not have certificates to be inducted into the skill acquisition programme he will establish, adding that at the end of the programme, such category of persons will be given N5 million loan at 0% interest rate payable after one year.

“I will industrialise Edo State by creating two industries/factories each in the 18 local government areas, activate the more than 12 abandoned industries as well as revisit the contract for establishing the Gele Gele seaport so that the rate at which our youths are migrating to Lagos and overseas will be checked and people will be migrating to Edo State instead.”

He pleaded with the delegates to vote “for a man with experience, whose previous endeavours created opportunities for others to excel, a man who has the people at heart, a man who is capable of transforming the state. You should not be intimidated by desperate moneybag politicians who are at the verge of trading off the state patrimony and our people’s future to external forces.”