The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Edo State governorship election slated for September 21, 1914, Senator Monday Okpebholo, over the weekend promised to revive the Ehor Juice Factory established by the Lucky Igbinedion administration.
Okpebholo stated this at Ehor during the APC ward-to-ward campaign in Uhunmwode Local Government Council Area. Of the state.
The governorship candidate also promised to provide the necessary manpower and equipment needed to ensure that the Ehor Technical College is functional.
Okpebholo said the Ehor Juice Factory, when functional, would help to prevent the loss presently being experienced by the pineapple producers in Uhunmwode and other local government areas of the state.
“We are all aware that Uhunmwode local government area is one of the highest pineapple producing local government in Edo State, if not Nigeria.
“Why can’t we then provide the factory that will buy and process the products from the farmers instead of allowing them to rot away on the farm without buyers?” Okpebholo queried
On the EhorTechnical College, he promised to provide teachers and equip it to the standard required to make it one of the best schools anyone could think of in the country.
Also speaking, the former member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Charles Idahosa, told the people that the only road tared in Uhunmwode was tared by the former governor, Adams Oshiomhole.
Idahosa, who was a commissioner under Lucky Igbinedion and Special Adviser to Oshimhole, lamented that Governor Godwin Obaseki had turned the Ehor Technical College into a garri factory.
He pleaded with the Uhunmwode people to vote for the APC come September 21, as Okpebholo had promised to better the lives of the Uhunmwode people.
On his part, the Director General of the APC Campaign Council, Matthew Urhoghide, appealed to the people to vote for APC on election day.
Urhokhide said that Okpebholo was the consensus candidate of both Edo North and Edo Central Senatorial Districts in line with the Esan agenda, adding that he believed in Okpebholo as a good candidate who would listen to the people.
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, called on the people of Uhunmwode to vote for APC on September 21.
He said he brought Monday Okpebholo to them so that they could hear from him what he intended to do for the people of Uhumwode.
He pleaded with them to vote APC on election day, as Okpebholo had promised to give them a general hospital when he assumed office as governor of Edo State.
At Eguaeholor, where the candidate and the campaign team met with the party supporters from Isi North and South Wards, Okpebholo expressed shock that the main road leading to Governor Godwin Obaseki’s ancestral home was not motorable as the campaign team had to pack most of their vehicles and trek the distance to access the campaign ground.
Okpebholo assured the people that the road would be tarred within the 100 days of his administration in office.
“I will make sure I tread this road immediately I resume office as the governor of Edo State. I am highly disappointed that Obaseki’s administration neglected even his ancestral home,” he stated.
In Ugoneki, Egbede/Ohuan ward, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu told the people that Governor Obaseki claimed that he came from Uhumwode, and for eight years he did nothing for the local government.
He urged them not to vote for PDP on September 21, adding that the APC government would provide water, electricity, and roads and provide light for them when they come to power.
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