– Agbomhere says he hopes to probe all corrupt officials if elected Edo governor
– The APC candidate says its better to be patriotic than to be comrade
– He says he hopes to better the lot of the youths
An
aspirant for the September 10 governorship in Edo state on the platform
of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Blessing Agbomhere, has vowed
to probe Governor Adams Oshiomole and send him to jail, if elected
governor of the state.
Agbomhere, a kinsman of Oshiomole , from
Fugar, Etsake Central local government area of the state, made the vow
on Tuesday in Benin, while addressing on why he decided to contest in
the election.
“I am running, not because I am from Afemi, not
because I am from Esan, not because I am from Benin, but because I am
from Edo state. I am running because I am from the camp of those that
have been deprived of leadership for too long, the youth.”
“My
government will abolish corruption in Edo state. That is why the
programme we have is to ensure that all our past leaders are probed.
Whether they like it or not, we will ensure that whatever they have
taken from Edo state, whatever they have wasted from Edo state, they
will bring back. And I will start from Comrade Adams Oshiomole , the
present governor of Edo state.
“We will visit all the projects
he has done to ascertain how much he has spent on the projects and if we
see that Edo state has been sub charged, we will ensure that such
monies will be refunded to the account of Edo state.
“We will
also visit the Airport road project. We have been getting petitions from
different groups and organisations on that projects, how [the first
contractor] abandoned the project and left some money unrefunded to the
state. We will go into that issue to ensure that we get into the truth
of it and if it is true that he did that, we will ensure that he refund
with immediate effect, the money into the account of our state. We will
no longer allow our state to be killed by those who put their interest
ahead of the state.”
Commenting on genuine patriotism to the
state, Agbomhere said, “I tell people I am not a comrade, I am a
patriot. I don’t know the meaning of comrade. In the Nigerian law, we
don’t know anything like comrade. What we have in Nigerian law is
patriotism. So we young Nigerians should focus our intellectualism, our
capacity and our capability in being patriotic to our state, not in
being comrade.”
The governorship aspirant also berated Governor
Oshiomole for “abandoning the state-owned Nigerian Observer newspapers
limited but spent millions of naira elsewhere to printing government
letterhead papers and other documents when he needed less than N200
million to refurbish Observer printing press.”
When asked how he
hope to get the nomination of his party to fly its flag at the election
even while threatening to probe the incumbent government sponsored by
the party, Agbomhere said the APC constitution is against corruption,
and so he will probe the present government the same way President
Muhammadu Buhari is currently probing the immediate past government.
“We
are probing because there are so many allegations of corruption against
the present government and the allegations are hampering the chances of
the party in the state,” he said.
Besides, he said he has
consulted widely with delegates of the party, adding that more than
2,600 delegates are already behind him.
“We believe this is our
time to take over the leadership of the Edo. We have consulted with Edo
people in diaspora. These young people have resolved that it is their
time to take over leadership. We have what it takes to build Edo and
take it to the next level. This is the time for the change Edo people
have been waiting for. I am the new face of that change.”
The
governorship aspirant promised to invest heavily in the mineral
resources that abound in the state “for the development and engagement
of the people of Edo state.
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