The Edo State Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Monday Okpebholo says he will work hard for the people like Senator Adams Oshiomhole did when he governed the state.
Okpebholo said he would like to be popular with the people after he has left office like Oshiomhole.
Okpebholo said this on weekend this in Okpella, Etsako East local government Area as part of the APC’s ward-to-ward campaign.
He 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
