The Accord Party candidate, Dr. Bright Enabulele, has asserted that he is the legitimate candidate of the party and advised anyone dissatisfied to seek legal redress in court.
Enabulele who reaffirmed his candidacy while speaking with journalists in Benin City on Wednesday, said that the controversy of who the authentic candidate is between him and Kennedy Iyere, was an attempt to distract him from the bigger issue of the governance that had rendered the state post rate, assuring that he would not be drawn into that petty issue.
He advised whoever had the faintest idea that “he is the candidate of the party apart from me to first allow us to win the election and then seek redress in the court.
“I am not going to be distracted from pursuing the desire to give the best of governance to Edo People.”
The Accord Party candidate assured the people of the state of qualitative representation in governance as he would concentrate in providing the best forms of governance available in other developed nations of the world.
This was just as he said that having lived in most developed countries of the world, he decided to come back home in the utmost believe that the state could only achieve true development if the Edo people in the Diaspora came back to replicate all the good things they saw and enjoyed abroad.
“I want to thank God that I am privileged to take part in something valuable.
“I want to thank God that the Press are here today to air my views and share my mind things that will move the state forward worldwide. This opportunity I will not take it for granted.
“People say you are in injury time. But I always tell people it’s not how you start but how you finish. It’s not about popularity. If it’s about popularity I would not be in this race.
“It’s about those that can navigate the complexity of this land. Yes, all these parties are popular.”
Enabulele added that “The problem here in Edo State today is just poverty. There are many nuances of poverty. There’s what is called absolute poverty; relative poverty; rural poverty and urban poverty.
“Poverty is a condition when individuals means can no longer fulfil their needs. Whether in terms of housing, shelter, healthcare. These are the problems of the state. We also have what they call social issues.
“That deny people from going to where they want to go. I call it disadvantage. The underside communities, the rural communities are challenged.
“You cannot talk of development when there are challenges.”
Dr. Enabulele promised that he would tackle all the challenges by way of adopting modern day governance instrumentality of provision of good governance anchored on accessibility, credibility and purposeful initiatives.
His administration’s achievements, he reaffirmed , would surpass that of the then governors of the old Bendel State, Professor Ambrose Alli and Brigadier General Samuel Ogbemudia, whose regimes, he noted, were being used as yardsticks for good governance in the state.
“For the past 24 years the government has being playing around with the intelligence of the people. And I say, allow the knowledgeable to rule.
“We want to navigate the complexity of this land.
“We need a civilised administration. An exposed administration because when someone is civilised you don’t have to tell them what to do. When people prioritise individualism over institutions we suffer,” he submitted.
On the idea that the Accord Party did not organise mega rallies to woo the people, the governorship candidate that the voters in the state “are enlightened and know exactly that the quality of the leaders they want are not about big rallies.”