By Francis Ogbuagu, Benin City
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate for the September 19 gubernatorial election in Edo State,Mrs Mabel Oboh, Friday said lher government,if elected come September 19 will create jobs and provide food for Edo people.
She made this assertion in Benin City at the ADC flagg-off campaign for the September 19 gubernatorial election. According to her,”My government will create jobs for the teaming unemployed youths in Edo State through innovation in agriculture.
“My motivation is clear, everybody is going in the wrong direction, somebody has to go in the right direction.My party is in the right direction, that is why I joined the party.We need to do something about Edo State. I am an Edo woman.I cannot see my people cry and keep quiet, that is why I am fighting, the cry of Edo people has touched my heart and I cannot keep quiet.
“Our main strategy is agriculture,Edo State is a fertile land,but the difference now is that, we’re going to change it.We’ll get people into food processing, green house agriculture,non seasonal foods.How do we tend to achieve this? This is what we have researched very well, we’ll tap on grants from World Bank,CBN and even UN.They will come and train us, through this we’re going to create jobs.It is going to be instant overhauling,not waiting for ten years.
“We need to get it done and we’re to use our resources, what we have been trying to do is to make sure Edo is self- reliance,not depending on Federal Government allocation, because our dependence on oil is what is putting us in trouble. In the next five years,oil will go down.If we don’t start looking inwards,our main purpose is to create jobs for our people and train them in skills acquisition.” She concluded.
In his address,the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Chief Ralph Okey Nwosusaid the situation in Edo State has been carefully studied by the ADC and the party knows that it will take a woman with the quality of Mabel Oboh to bring the pathetic situation in Edo State to an end.
He maintained that other Politicians are crooked, deceitful and cannot be trusted.Hear him. “The election in Edo State is won,it depends on Edo People to choose what they want,do they want integrity, a tested woman, a mother? In a house, where there is war,it will take a woman to bring in the feminine touch.
“Therefore,ADC have done what we should do as a party,We have seen the challenges in Edo,there is chameleonic attitude of the politicians in Edo.These Politicians are crooked, deceitful, therefore, we decided to bring your sister, your daughter,a woman with integrity. They have called her to come and collect money, just like every other persons are doing,so that she abandon this project,but she refused and stood her ground.It is now left for Edo people to decide what they want,do they want the crooked People to be in government or they want the only person standing,with a clear picture of the programme she wants to implement?
He stated that some few renegades in the party were planted to corrupt the Party and it’s candidate,but they could not get her, because she is a woman of integrity.
“Another thing, I want to state is that some few renegades planted in the party want to corrupt the party and our candidate, you cannot intimidate the only woman of integrity in the race,a woman of integrity has to be given a chance.”
He said.
