Mr Philip Shuaibu, the APC running mate yesterday affirmed that Godwin Obaseki as governor would reconstruct the state to look like Dubai saying that the APC’s candidate’s expertise in turning around the fortunes of many Nigerian companies has been well documented.

MR Philip Shuaibu, the APC running mate yesterday affirmed that Godwin Obaseki as governor would reconstruct the state to look like Dubai saying that the APC’s candidate’s expertise in turning around the fortunes of many Nigerian companies has been well documented.

PDP state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih has dared the APC candidate Mr. Godwin Obaseki to publicly display to Edo people the original copies of his educational certificates which he said he was expecting from the US city of New York.

APC chieftain Mr. Charity Aimanyanwo, yesterday declared that the Esama of Benin Kingdom, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion will suffer defeat in his unit in the forthcoming governorship election because of the alleged under development suffered by Ovia people when his son, Chief Lucky Igbinedion was governor.

Dr (Mrs.) Idia Ize-Iyamu, wife of the PDP candidate, has said that the true liberation of Edo people from the burden of hunger and ill health would begin with the less privileged, especially women.

THE member representing Ovia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rep. Omosede Igbinedion, has described September 10, 2016, as a day Edo people would be liberated from the “shackles of bad governance and underdevelopment,” as perpetrated by the outgoing government in the state.

PDP Candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu yesterday cautioned Governor Adams Oshiomole and the APC Candidate, Godwin Obaseki, against dragging the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) into what he dubbed as “their dirty and unholy politics.”

CHAIRMAN, Benin Leaders of Thought (BLT) and Enogie of Obazuwa, His Royal Highness, Ovbioba Edun Akenzua, has described Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s decision to pick a Bini man, Godwin Obaseki as a governorship candidate for the APC without recourse to stakeholders from the Senatorial District as an act of godfatherism.

Hon. Isaac Kekemeke, chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Ondo State has been at the centre of controversy over his alleged inclination towards one of the leading governorship aspirants in the state. The crisis led to his “sack” by two-third of the members of the State Working Committee, SWC of the party, a development that has drawn the national party to intervene.

For a host of prominent Anambra indigenes, all roads led to the Governors Lodge, Awka, last Saturday, as the state celebrated, in style, 25 years of eventful statehood.