He also said he will run an all inclusive government where all Edo people would govern the state through him.
Abegbe stated this during an interactive session with journalists in Benin City, Edo state capital.
According to him, “I know the problems of Edo State and I have the solutions. Infrastructural decay and poor economy are the two basic problems of Edo state.
“When you empower the people and make them gainfully engaged and with functional infrastructure, coupled with other variables, the economy and the lives of the people will improve.
“Sustainable economy is birthed on the principles of production and consumption. Edo with a population of about 5.1 million with current GDP reading 11.9 billion dollars and a per capital income of 2,338 dollars put together with targeted people driven socio- economic blueprint at our disposal to mitigate present despondency in the state, the economy will rebound and begin to flourish for the betterment of every Edo citizen.
Abegbe added that employment is a tool with which he intendsto fight insecurity in the state. “When people are gainfully employed insecurity will reduce drastically and couple with the deployment of my security blueprint, crime and criminality would be controlled maximally so that investments can thrive in the state.”
According to him, “In my government, the impute of the people must be paramount, the concern, fears, hope and aspirations and their welfare must be the parameters on which decisions of any government that want to succeed must be founded, and so, running a one man show is an exercise in futility as it won’t achieve the desired objective.
“There must be an interface between the people and the governor. We have created it in our manifesto that there must be accountability day which will be twice in a year where the governor would render record to the people on how the state money is spent. It would be a situation where the people can ask the governor questions on leadership and accountability and a detailed report of the financial dealings of the government would be presented to the people in the open.
When the people know what we are doing for them, they would want to be part of the government to help us succeed”. He said.
