APC, a Government that Breaks Its Own Laws - Hon Asekhame

- Hon Daniel Asekhame

APC, a Government that Breaks Its Own Laws - Hon Asekhame

Without consideration to the law makers the APC led Edo state government has continuously broken all its laws and regulations in desperation to install Godwin Obaseki into power.

Do imagine the flood of posters littering Edo state, especially the capital Benin city like graffiti. Posters worth over N 300,000,000.00 (Three Hundred Million Naira) tax payers money. Even the roads and walls of all public buildings have been defaced by these campaign posters. The most blatant of these is at the Edo state Museum at the Kings Square (Ring Road), There you have an original warning sign placed on the wall surrounding the museum in the center of the square by the government banning any sort of posters or bills on the walls, for fear or reducing the aesthetic pleasantry of the square. All around this warning notice are banners placed there by same government covering the whole walls surrounding the square campaigning for the APC.

The irony

Remember same government banned the opposition from placing any campaign banners or posters on government electric poles and on public walls. Same government banned the opposition from holding rallies in the government owned stadium or schools or public arenas. Same government holds rallies in primary school fields and the government owned stadium and public grounds for the APC.

Otaru of Auchi

Reject god fatherism was one of the key points of the Edo state APC governor’s campaign and diatribe for the past 8 years. Yet the Otaru of Auchi seems to think otherwise. On a visit to him by the APC the first class ruler and Islamic scholar queried the APC for not respecting the principles of justice and fair play in choosing their deputy gubernatorial candidate from Etsako where the outgoing governor is from, noting that even in Etsako, the governor should have considered another clan outside Oshiomhole’s village to promote harmony and trust. The monarch was reported to have told Philip Shuaibu that there is news in town that he is campaigning with the gully erosion but that he will be responded to at the appropriate time. He went further to say the APC request for his endorsement and prayers to win the gubernatorial election was “mission impossible” because the candidates are not the right people. As the rumor goes, the dignified ruler went on to reject the cartons of money presented by the APC and advised the governor to use the money to pay at least some of the Etsako local government workers and retirees that have received no salary for months.

Santana market Benin city

The APC led government in Edo lambasted the former finance minister under GEJ calling her the epitome of corruption yet in the past forth night rumors have it that the government delegation sent to the popular Santana market on Sapele road in Benin to deliver bales and bales of Naira to sway the market women to the side of the APC was roundly rejected by the market as a body. The market women bemoaned the continuous taxation without dividend and the continuous harassment and destruction of their meager wares by the agents of the APC government and cried for a change of the APC in the state to the chagrin of the government delegation.

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE