The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has said that the state government cannot fault the claim by the party’s state chairman that Edo residents have been in poverty and misery.
Jarret Tenebe, who has faced criticism since making the statement, claimed that poor rural inhabitants couldn’t afford Android phones or data, let alone pay-per-view television.
Tenebe had revealed on Thursday on Arise TV that Edo residents were poor and so would not be able to afford satellite subscriptions to view the APC governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo, grant an interview on Arise TV.
He also stated that the APC governorship candidate would not approve the channel’s request for an interview.
While the Labour Party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, and his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Asue Ighodalo, have appeared on the show, Okpebholo has yet to show up for the interview.
Tenebe responded by stating that Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has “impoverished” the state’s citizens to the point that they cannot pay cable channel subscriptions.
Meanwhile, the APC, through its Director of Publicity, Orobosa Omo-Ojo, said on Friday, “With exactly 21 days to the watershed governorship election in Edo State, the All Progressives Congress is glad to tell Nigerians that Edo people have demonstrated their unequivocal decision to reclaim the state from the current political bandits who have plundered their commonwealth.
“Their resolve is strengthened by the infrastructural decay across the state, which has exacerbated the socioeconomic crises caused by the wanton neglect of the rural dwellers.
“Therefore, Edo people can only score Governor Godwin Obaseki and his People’s Democratic Party with the works done or undone in tangible pillars such as roads, schools, hospitals, agriculture, land administration, culture, and relationship with our treasured traditional institutions when they will be casting their votes for freedom on September 21, 2024.
“They will not be confounded about the difficulties and dangers they are presently facing or be deceived about the prosperity they enjoyed during the eight years of APC administration under the leadership of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
“They will rationalise these glaring contrasts on September 21, 2024, to reclaim and reset Edo to the past glory that APC attained in the state.
“The statement made by our State Chairman, Jarret Tenebe, that Edo State has been pushed below the poverty line by Governor Obaseki and as such, the majority of the poor rural dwellers are unable to buy Android phones or data, aptly defines the miserable hardship that has been caused by the PowerPoint administration of the PDP in Edo State.
“No analysis of junk data coming from any onlooker, observing from his armchair in Lagos, Abuja, or anywhere outside Edo State, will abort the plan of stakeholders to own their destiny.
“Edo people will not allow rent seekers to peddle plagiarised figures and data that do not reflect the physical conditions in Edo State.
