THE Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, weekend, said he wants to remain popular with the people after finishing his term as governor of the state like former governor Adams Oshiomhoe. He said the only that can be achieved is work for the people like Oshiomhole did while he was governor.
Okpebholo stated this in Okpella, Etsako East local government Area as part of the APC’s ward-to-ward campaign where he urged the people to vote out the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
The campaign train also stopped over at Anegbette, Ogbonna, Ugbekpe-Ekperi, and Fugar in Etsako Central Local Government Area.
In Ugbekpe Ekperi, Okpebholo assured the people of adequate security on election day, after experiencing an exchange of gunfire between the campaign team security and some suspected thugs. He told the people to remain calm, saying: “They will pay for all these attacks on innocent voters. How will you be shooting at unarmed civilians, and you want them to vote for you?”
At Okpella, Okpebholo said: “I want to promise Okpella people one thing, where His Excellency (Oshiomhole) stopped, that is where I will begin from. I will make sure that our land is safe, there will be no kidnapping, we will send them away because they are alien to us, they are not from here
“In schools you don’t have roofs, no teachers. One of my friends told me that in his village, he has two and a half teachers. I asked what is two and a half teachers, he said one is headmaster and two teachers. The headmaster is doing two things sometimes he teaches so he is half but the good news is that when we come in, we will employ 5,000 teachers in my first 100 days in office. Teachers who are there now as contract staff will not be part of the 5,000, I will make their employment permanent because they are already in the system. We will reposition education.
“We are going to provide PHCs (Primary Health Centres) in all the wards. We will support the existing secondary healthcare facilities to grow further.
“I will work for you because I want to be like Oshiomhole, who as governor used to walk in the streets and after he left the government he still walks in the streets. He does that because he worked for the people.
“I want to beg the people of Okpella that September 21 is the D-Day, we must tell Obaseki that our mumu don do.”