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Edo APC congress, litmus test for one- man one-vote mantra —Ogiemwonyi

A leading governorship aspirant on the
platform of All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Edo State, Mr Chris Ogiemwonyi,
has said that the coming June
congressional election will determine
whether or not Edo people have truly
imbibed the doctrine of "one- man one-
vote," even as he urged them to take
their destinies in their hands.
Addressing Edo South delegates across the seven local
governments of Oredo, Uhunwonde,
Egor, Ikpoba-Okha, Orhiomwon, Ovia
South-West and Ovia North-East,
Ogiemwonyi said that people who
acquire power through the back door
were accountable only to their masters.
He promised to wipe out poverty from
the state by engaging the jobless youths,
who have certificates into the civil
service and those who do not have
certificates to be inducted into the skill
acquisition programme he will establish,
adding that at the end of the
programme, such category of persons
will be given N5 million loan at 0%
interest rate payable after one year.
"I will industrialise Edo State by creating
two industries/factories each in the 18
local government areas, activate the
more than 12 abandoned industries as
well as revisit the contract for
establishing the Gele Gele seaport so
that the rate at which our youths are
migrating to Lagos and overseas will be
checked and people will be migrating to
Edo State instead."
He pleaded with the delegates to vote
"for a man with experience, whose
previous endeavours created
opportunities for others to excel, a man
who has the people at heart, a man who
is capable of transforming the state. You
should not be intimidated by desperate
moneybag politicians who are at the
verge of trading off the state patrimony
and our people's future to external
forces."
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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