Edo 2024: Oshiomhole alleges denial of APC access to public schools for campaign

The former governor of Edo State, who is also the senator representing the Edo North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that the state government continues to deny the All Progressives Congress (APC) the use of public schools for its governorship campaign.

This was just as the former labour leader threatened to ban Governor Godwin Obaseki from using the federal roads in the state, should the state government continue to deny the APC from gaining access to the schools.

Oshiomhole, who spoke in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State during the APC ward-to-ward campaign in the area said he built the schools during his tenure and wondered “why my party should be denied use of the facilities for campaign.”

He stated that Obaseki should know that “he is only a caretaker,” holding a brief for Edo people, threatening that, “We will deny Obaseki using federal roads if he deprives us from using government schools again. Next time he stops us, we will enter and use the facilities..”

He added: “Obaseki does not own the police, the army. It is his vigilante that carries a dane gun that he wants to use to deprive us the use of facilities. We will use them henceforth.”

On the debate by the candidates in the election, he said the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, would join in the debate “but it has to be in Esan dialect, and moderated by Esan people because charity begins at home.”

On his part, the Director General of the APC Campaign, Matthew Urhokhide, appealed to the people to vote for the APC on the election day.

Urhokhide said both Edo North and Edo South Senatorial Districts had agreed with the Esan agenda, hence their choice of Senator Okpebholo as the APC candidate, adding that he believed in Okpebholo as a good candidate that would listen to the yearnings of the people.

Speaking, the governorship candidate, Okpebholo, promised to create over 5000 jobs, as well as declare a state of emergency on Roads, Education, Health and Security.

He assured that modern farming would be introduced with mechanized farming,

Okpebholo also assured that a peaceful environment would be created in the state as kidnapping and other various vices would go with the Obaseki-led government.

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