The Edo State Government has said it is using “deodorant” and governmental performance to sanitise the pollution created by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP-led government over the last eight years in the state.
Prince Kassim Afegbua, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, stated this while responding to a press statement by the main opposition party, the PDP, in Benin City on Wednesday.
The PDP press statement was titled, “Edo State under
Okpebholo: A year of drift, democratic rupture, and systematic destruction of
institutional legacy.”
The party accused the Governor Okpebholo-led APC government
of squandering state and local government funds from the Federation Account
Allocation Committee (FAAC), as well as poor governance in the past one year in
office, despite huge financial resources running into tens of billions of naira
that had accrued to the state.
Responding, Kassim Afegbua opined that the state government
had moved ahead and left the crossroads of PDP emanations.
He noted that responding to the PDP was a huge mental waste
of time, as the government was busy trying to clean up the opposition party’s
mess and halitosis littered across the state by using deodorant and
governmental performance to sanitise their pollution.
“Like I said before, this category of PDP vuvuzelas are
simply crying because the state feeding bottle has been removed from their
well-salivated mouths, and they are now coming to the reality that Edo State is
beyond their grip.
“We are too busy cleaning up their mess to have the time to
make such ripostes. Reasonable Edo people appreciate our efforts thus far, but
the PDP’s gang of sinuous fawns will always behave true to type,” he said.
Speaking on allegations that the state government is
compiling alleged offences of former Governor Godwin Obaseki for anti-graft
agencies, the commissioner opined that the guilty will always be on the run,
becoming fugitives in their own country.
He stated that if the former governor did not have a
skeleton in his cupboard, he would gladly return home, alleging that due to his
involvement in several financial malfeasances, he continues to look for excuses
to remain overseas.
“His legacy of rot and decay in Edo State will forever haunt
him. His legacy of corruption and profligacy will always torment him. If he
does not want to come home to face queries, we will petition the relevant
security agencies to compel him to return.
“There is no hiding place for anybody in the global arena.
The world has become a global village. If he thinks that the little island he
lives on in the UK will hide him from our grip, he would be joking.
“We are neither forcing nor intimidating him to come home;
we are only asking him to come and account for his eight years in office when
he presided over Edo State’s collective patrimony. It is not too much to ask,”
he added.
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