Shettima, Akpabio, APC govs lead campaign for Okpebholo

Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and some All Progressives Congress governors and leaders also campaigned for the APC candidate, Monday Okpebholo.

According to The PUNCH Shettima urged the people of the state to vote for Okpebholo, emphasising that the state needed a strategic thinker, builder, and compassionate leader.

Speaking at the APC rally held at the University of Benin Indoor Sports Complex, Ugbowo Campus, Benin, Shettima expressed confidence in Okpebholo and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa, to deliver the dividends of democracy to Edo State.

He noted that intelligence was not determined by the size of the head but by the ability to solve people’s problems.

He urged Edo residents to turn out in large numbers to vote for the APC on September 21.

Akpabio, in his address, said Okpebholo and Idahosa would fulfil their electoral promises, adding that Edo needed leaders who could perform, not just those who ccoul speak “grammar.”

Akpabio expressed confidence in Okpebholo’s ability to deliver.

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The APC National Chairman, Umar Ganduje, accused the Obaseki administration of fostering insecurity and unemployment, calling on Edo residents to vote for the APC for prosperity.

Ganduje assured voters that Okpebholo and Idahosa would bring security to the state.

A former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, who is currently representing Edo North Senatorial District, accused Obaseki of being insensitive to the plight of Edo people, stating that the governor’s eight-year tenure had achieved nothing significant.

Oshiomhole criticised Obaseki for failing to rebuild markets destroyed during his administration and for converting a state hospital and library into a museum and shopping mall, respectively.