Edo poll: Obaseki will win, says Shaibu

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Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, “to return to the school of good governance and be more exposed to the art of governance.”

According to the deputy governor, governance is not window shopping, but a collective and tedious process that require critical thinking and collective wisdom.

“It is laughable for Ize-Iyamu and his cohort to undermine the true act of governance by  reducing  the complex and methodological process of good governance to a “Simple Agenda,” he said.

Speaking with reporters in Benin, the state capital, Shuaibu said: “The fact that Ize-Iyamu still parades the same simple agenda that was rejected by the people of Edo State in 2016, due to his glaring inexperience in governance, as confirmed by his godfather Adams Oshiomhole’s who told the world that he restricted Ize-Iyamu to ‘midnight meetings” and didn’t let him participate in the affairs of government because Ize-Iyamu cannot be trusted, while Governor Obaseki was the “brain box” of his administration as Edo Governor, shows that Ize-Iyamu is not in tune with today’s method of technological system of governance.

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“Edo State has gone beyond analogue form of government. We need a digital governor who is not technically deficient in the act of governance,

“Governor Obaseki has managed the affairs of the State in a particularly acceptable manner by shaping and sharpening it politically, economically and socially to meet the standards set by the society.

“The Obaseki administration has demonstrated all that is required of good governance; from zero tolerance for corruption, through demonstration of political will to the genuine commitment by government to the affairs of the citizens of the State,” Shaibu declared.

The Edo Deputy Governor stressed that the Obaseki’s administration has given political empowerment to the masses by providing them a voice, as well as making them stakeholders and involving them in the art of governance. Such a tedious process of governance cannot be tagged as a simple agenda. Advocates of the simple agenda are deformed about the art of good governance.

“The bottom top developmental approach to the welfare of the people in the administration of the State has given the people of the State a sense of belonging. The diversification of the Edo Economic from mono to multi-product, has been made possible through the tireless efforts of Governor Godwin Obaseki  in his determination to build an edo of our collective dream,” Shaibu noted.