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Give Account Of Your Stewardship Instead Of Defaming Credible People
Give Account Of Your Stewardship Instead Of Defaming Credible People
November 15, () – We have watched with utter amusement an interview granted by the current Governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to an online news platform to mark his second year in office. In the interview, he told several barefaced lies against leading political figures in the country, including two former governors: His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki, former Governor of Edo State, and His Excellency, Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, making several unsubstantiated allegations against them.
While we understand his current predicament, arising from the lack of any tangible development records to show Nigerians for his 24 months in office, despite trillions of naira having passed through the state’s coffers during this period, we wish to note that it is totally disingenuous and mischievous to attempt to deflect public attention from his deplorable performance as governor by telling unconscionable lies about H.E. Godwin Obaseki and others whom he knows enjoy the goodwill of the people.
In direct response to the baseless allegations he made against Obaseki, we state, without equivocation, that the Obaseki administration neither diverted any funds nor left any outstanding emolument debts, as he claimed in his interview. As they say, talk is cheap. Anyone can make baseless claims, particularly when shielded from prosecution by the constitutional immunity enjoyed by governors.
As for the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), apart from the senseless closure of a world-class institution that placed not only Edo State but Nigeria as a whole enviably on the global art and culture map, there is no other story about the project to be left for “another day.”
Instead of relying on trickery to deflect public attention from the clear underperformance of his administration so far, we encourage Okpebholo to begin to make an honest effort to deliver tangible dividends of democracy to the people of Edo State during the less than two years remaining in his administration.
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***Written by Crusoe Osagie, Media Adviser to Former Edo State Governor, H.E. Godwin Obaseki
