….says PDP lacks today’s governance realities
From our political desk, Benin
THE All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo State Chapter has carpeted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for its criticisms of the Senator Monday Okpebholo's administration.
The PDP lacks today’s governance realities, it said.
The APC on Sunday, 1 December, 2024 while addressing the media in Benin wondered about the morality and objectivity in PDP criticism of Okpebholo's administration.
Through its acting State Chairman, Emperor Jarret Tenebe, the party said contrary to the criticism of the PDP, landmark projects Okpebholo has embarked upon like the Ramat Park Fly Over was captured in the reviewed budget of 2024.
While the allegation of the attack on its secretariat was a case the opposition party cannot substantiate.
Pointing out that the public display of calls to violence by some chieftains of the PDP during the campaigns in the event that it loses the election; was enough to query their moral rights to challenge the result of an election they expressed desperation to win.
“The ignoble and violent traits of PDP which they exhibited before, during and after the election are the sign posts of imperialistic disposition which the Edo people shall never pray to experience again.”
The APC held that this call for violence even before the election resulted in ”the killing of police inspector Akor Onuh attached to Okpebholo before now.
“PDP, still celebrating its failure has now embarked on a self-destructive voyage to criticize the Government of Distinguished Senator Monday Okpebholo that has surpassed the non-achievement of Governor Obaseki in eight years, having just been in office for a few days.”
Taking a swipe at the State Chairman of PDP Dr. Tony Azeigbemi, the APC noted that the press conference he had few days ago only demonstrates that he has no knowledge of the implementation of the revised Appropriation law 2024 of Edo State.
"The flyover bridge can be captured in the open ended parenthesis of the budget which accommodates projects of implicit and urgent importance.
“Edo people are now happy that a Governor who understands their plights and is ready to tackle them head on has come and they now know that what the PDP Government termed; “impossible projects” like the flyovers are realizable by a Government that is determined to work and not believe in MOUs which only existed on papers.”
Reacting to the alleged attack on the secretariat of the PDP, the APC said; it was most disgusting for the opposition party to ascribe the "criminal destruction which happened in their moribund secretariat" to the APC.
“While the APC Government of His Excellency, Monday Okpebholo condemned any act of criminal tendencies like the alleged destruction of the PDP secretariat, it must be stated without equivocation that the said alleged act has no bearing with the APC."
It said the allegation which was criminal must be proven beyond reasonable doubt.
“Therefore, we require the PDP to substantiate their allegations with undisputed facts so that the allegations should not remain in the realm of suspicion which has no place in our criminal statutes.
“The PDP must know that His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Monday Okpebholo has put his hand on the plow and he is ready to put Edo State in the map of the progressives.”
The APC also frowned at the allegation by Azeigbemi and Osita Chidoka saying that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) BVAS ( Bimodal Voter Accreditation System ) was compromised for the September 21st Governorship election.
“We state unequivocally that there are two sets of BVAS machines in INEC office. The one legitimately used by INEC for the Election and the manipulated machines that were smuggled into the office of INEC by the PDP.
“We therefore now more than ever before, call on the security agencies to investigate where the PDP got the manipulated BVAS machines from with which they are circulating fake results since same have been acknowledged in the public space."
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