The Edo State government has lambasted immediate governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, for disparaging development initiatives in the state, especially in agricultural reforms and feeding programmes for the vulnerable.
The state government, in a statement signed by special adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki, on Media, Crusoe Osagie, said it is most disappointed that someone of Senator Oshiomhole’s standing will take to national television to make statements that he knows to be completely false for the purpose of scoring cheap political points.
The governor’s aide while reeling the government’s programmes to reduce the hardship and suffering of Edo people in the wake of the difficult living conditions in the country, arising from various policies that have been implemented by the federal government, urged the federal government to approach state government to understudy its thoroughly thought-out mode of supporting the vulnerable in Edo State to fine-tune their model, which is fraught with irregularities and lack of transparency.
The statement said, “The attention of the Edo State Government has been drawn to comments by the former Governor of the State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole in which he disparaged Governor Godwin Obaseki’s agricultural reforms and the state’s feeding programme for the vulnerable amid other statements aimed at undermining the government’s laudable achievements.
“The government is most disappointed that someone of Senator Oshiomhole’s standing will take to national television to make statements that he knows to be completely false for the purpose of scoring cheap political points.
“Oshiomhole who is now representing just a section of the State, Edo North Senatorial District, after superintending over the entire State as Governor is expected to display more maturity and decorum and ensure that he rises above parochial, partisan interests.
“He ought to empathise with his people who are now reeling from the avoidable pains inflicted on them by ill-deployed Federal Government policies imposed by the All Progressives Congress administration for whom Oshiomhole now acts as a spokesman discountenancing the genuine displeasure being expressed by the people through the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests in Edo State and across the country.”