Citing the non-completion of the Gelegele Seaport, Benin Industrial Park Azura power plant, Sobe Farms, Utesi industrial cluster among other grandiose projects, the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday lambasted the decision of Governor Godwin Obaseki to once again promise to build a passenger airport at Uzairue, Etsako West Local government area.
In a statement in Benin by the assistant state publicity secretary, Victor Ofure Osehobo, he reminded that the airport project is just another of Governor Obaseki’s long list of audio projects, strong on paper but non-existent in reality, conceived, designed and perfected to confuse the people.
Osehobo gave the long list of other projects which the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led administration conceived but yet to start work on as the CBN anchor borrowers scheme, Utesi industrial cluster, truck transit park, inland container depot, Edo State fertilizer plant and chemical company, Edo refinery and petrochemicals Ltd and Benin innovation hub.
The scribe said that trillions of Naira of Edo taxpayers money have been sunk into these projects by the governor who obviously knew that his plans will not come to reality.
He said that it was ironic that Governor Obaseki was still campaigning even though the governorship election is long over,
He queried “While will he embark on an airport construction project that has little or no direct bearing on the lives of Edo people, whereas he did not include it in his audio MEGA ( Make Edo Grounded Again) manifesto?
The APC spokesman accused the governor of allowing deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu to use his Chief of Staff, Mr Jimoh Ejegbai to take some aviation experts led by a Director in the aero contractors to the site of the airport.
The Edo APC secretary noted that there are teachers to be employed in Edo schools just as there are schools requiring rehabilitation and renovations just as there are roads to be built and erosion control projects requiring serious attention.
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