The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, weekend promised to revive the Ehor Juice Factory established by the Lucky Igbinedion administration.
He also promised to provide the necessary manpower and equipment needed to ensure that the Ehor Technical College is functional.
Okpebholo announced this at Ehor during the APC Ward to Ward campaign in Uhunmwode Local Government Area, explaining that the Ehor Juice Factory, when functional, will help to prevent the loss presently being experienced by the pineapple producers in Uhunmwode and other local government areas of the state.
“We are all aware that Uhunmwode local government area is one of the highest pineapple producing local governments in Edo State, if not Nigeria.
“Why can’t we then provide the factory that will buy and process the products from the farmers, instead of allowing them to rot away in the farm without buyers”, he said.
On the Technical College, he promised to provide teachers and equip it to the standard required to make it one of the best schools you can think of in the country.
Also speaking, Charles Idahosa, a Chieftain of the party from Uhunmwode Local Government, told the people that the only road tarred in Uhunmwode was by former governor Adams Oshiomhole, saying “Obaseki has turned our Technical College to garri factory”.
He pleaded with the Uhunmwode people to vote the APC on September 21 as Okpebholo has promised to better the life of the people of the local government.
Similarly, the Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, appealed to the people to vote for APC on election day.
He explained that both Edo North and Central have all agreed with the Esan agenda, hence their choice of Senator Okpebholo as their party’s candidate. He said he believes in Monday Okpebholo as a good candidate that will listen to the yearnings of the people.
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, called on the people of Uhunmwode to vote APC on September 21. He said he brought Monday Okpebholo to them so that they could hear from him what he intends to do for the people of Uhumwode.
He pleaded with them to vote APC on election day as Okpebholo had promised to give them a general hospital when he resumes office as governor of Edo State.
At Eguaeholor, where the candidate and the campaign team met with the party supporters from Isi North and South Wards, Okpebholo expressed shock that the main road leading to governor Godwin Obaseki’s ancestral home is not motorable as the campaign team had to pack most of their vehicles and trek the distance to access the campaign ground.
Okpebholo assured the people that the road would be tarred within 100 days of his administration in office.
“I will make sure I tar this road immediately I resume office as the governor of Edo State. I am highly disappointed that Obaseki’s administration neglected even his ancestral home,” he lamented.
In Ugoneki, Egbede/ Ohuan ward, another chieftain of the APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, told the people that Governor Obaseki claimed that he came from Uhumwode and for eight years he did nothing for the local government.
He, therefore, urged them not to vote PDP on September 21, adding that APC government will provide water, electricity, tar roads and provide light for them when they come to power.
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