I’m Leaving Office Very Satisfied And Happy – Obaseki

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has expressed satisfaction with the achievements of his administration after two tenures.

Naijaonpoint reports that Obaseki, during the commissioning of the rehabilitated Benin Technical College on Tuesday in Benin City, said he did his best as the governor of the state in the last eight years.

Obaseki stated that the rebuilding of the college was part of his electioneering promises to create 200,000 jobs for the young boys and girls in the state to stem the tide of human trafficking and irregular migration among the youths.

He said, “This afternoon, I am so glad that a week to the exit in my office, I can come here and see a rebuilt Benin Technical College. A college that is now giving hope to hundreds if not thousands of young boys and girls.

“I say What greater glory or gift can you ask from God?. I am leaving office very very satisfied and happy. That I came to this school, I saw the state of this college and I did my best.

“When I became governor of the state in 2016, we in Edo were facing existential threat. Our children did not want to go to school. At that point they said school is scam. People invaded our communities offering them all sort of things and taken them out of this country.

“So the rate of human trafficking and irregular migration was scaring for me, when I saw the data that over 30,000 Edo boys and girls were in Libya trying to cross to overseas. You can image how many dies on their way there.

“When I was campaigning in 2016, I then promised that I will restore hope, a promised which politicians don’t normally do. I said by the time I finished my tenure I would have created over 200,000 jobs. I put a number to it. And by the grace of God, today, I think we have far far exceeded that number.

“But I said how are we going to create these jobs not through government and not through the civil service. It is by ensuring that we gives skills, training to these young boys and girls. Who just wanted hope and opportunity in life.

“So, when I resumed office in November 12, 2016, one of the first places I visited was this Technical College because if I am going to create 200,000 jobs and more, then where are the institutions that I can train these people so that they can get these jobs. This school was one of them.”