Secretary to Edo state Government and Iyase (Prime Minister) of lluleha kingdom, in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo state, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere has rubbished reports that people of the area have vowed not to vote for the All progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming governorship polls in the state if the lluleha-Uzebba road was not constructed before the election.
The SSG, who reacted to the report yesterday, said it was made by political jobbers in the area who don’t “even know the difference between politics of development and that of the stomach. That is just the figment of their imagination because Owan West particularly lulleha has been APC and will continue to be APC”.
According to Prof. Ihonvbere, contract for the construction of the road in question has already been awarded to a credible contractor, who has been mobilized to site by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole administration and work is ongoing now.
“And to be honest, there is no way that road will be completed in the life span of the current administration”, he said, adding that the APC governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki, has visited the area, understands the terrain and even vowed that if the road is not completed by November when Oshiomhole’s tenure would have ended, he will complete it, if elected into office.
“Obaseki’s mother is from Uzebba and he cannot abandon his people. Most of us were in PDP for years. In fact, PDP spent ten years but they never poured a sand in that place. So why will people in the name of politics try to exhibit ingratitude to a government that at least had made effort to construct that road?” the SSG queried.
“Apart from the fact that I am SSG, I am the Iyasele of lluleha so nobody knows my area more than me. These comments are coming from hungry characters who want to blackmail the APC but they have failed. The Local Government is an APC Local Government we have always done well there and there is nothing stopping us from defeating the PDP and their sponsors in this area. PDP cannot point at anything they have done for our people all they do is to sponsor some idle persons but they are wasting their time”, Ihonvbere asserted.
