Oshiomhole Will Land In Jail If I Become Governor – Edo APC Governorship Candidate

An aspirant for the September 10 governorship in

Edo state on the platform of the All Progressives

Congress (APC), Blessing Agbomhere, has vowed

to probe Governor Adams Oshiomole and send

him to jail, if elected governor of the state.

Agbomhere, a kinsman of Oshiomole , from

Fugar, Etsake Central local government area of

the state, made the vow on Tuesday in Benin,

while addressing on why he decided to contest in

the election.

“I am running, not because I am from Afemi, not

because I am from Esan, not because I am from

Benin, but because I am from Edo state. I am

running because I am from the camp of those

that have been deprived of leadership for too

long, the youth.”

“My government will abolish corruption in Edo

state. That is why the programme we have is to

ensure that all our past leaders are probed.

Whether they like it or not, we will ensure that

whatever they have taken from Edo state,

whatever they have wasted from Edo state, they

will bring back. And I will start from Comrade

Adams Oshiomole , the present governor of Edo

state.

“We will visit all the projects he has done to

ascertain how much he has spent on the projects

and if we see that Edo state has been sub

charged, we will ensure that such monies will be

refunded to the account of Edo state.

“We will also visit the Airport road project. We

have been getting petitions from different groups

and organisations on that projects, how [the first

contractor] abandoned the project and left some

money unrefunded to the state.

We will go into that issue to ensure that we get

into the truth of it and if it is true that he did

that, we will ensure that he refund with

immediate effect, the money into the account of

our state.

We will no longer allow our state to be killed by

those who put their interest ahead of the state.”

Commenting on genuine patriotism to the

state, Agbomhere said, “I tell people I am not a

comrade, I am a patriot. I don’t know the

meaning of comrade. In the Nigerian law, we

don’t know anything like comrade.

What we have in Nigerian law is patriotism. So

we young Nigerians should focus our

intellectualism, our capacity and our capability in

being patriotic to our state, not in being

comrade.”

The governorship aspirant also berated Governor

Oshiomole for “abandoning the state-owned

Nigerian Observer newspapers limited but spent

millions of naira elsewhere to printing

government letterhead papers and other

documents when he needed less than N200

million to refurbish Observer printing press.”

When asked how he hope to get the nomination

of his party to fly its flag at the election even

while threatening to probe the incumbent

government sponsored by the party, Agbomhere

said the APC constitution is against corruption,

and so he will probe the present government the

same way President Muhammadu Buhari is

currently probing the immediate past

government.

“We are probing because there are so many

allegations of corruption against the present

government and the allegations are hampering

the chances of the party in the state,” he said.

Besides, he said he has consulted widely with

delegates of the party, adding that more than

2,600 delegates are already behind him.

“We believe this is our time to take over the

leadership of the Edo. We have consulted with

Edo people in diaspora. These young people have

resolved that it is their time to take over

leadership.

We have what it takes to build Edo and take it to

the next level. This is the time for the change Edo

people have been waiting for. I am the new face

of that change.”

The governorship aspirant promised to invest

heavily in the mineral resources that abound in

the state “for the development and engagement of

the people of Edo state.”