FROM IKHILI EBALU, BENIN CITY
Edo State Government has chided the governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo and his aides to focus on organising their N5bn inauguration and leave Governor Godwin Obaseki out of their petty politics.
Special Adviser to Governor Obaseki on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie in a statement said it was regrettable that the new government was starting on a sorry note of lavishing the state’s resources on the November 12 inauguration instead of thinking of how to hit the ground running.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in a had release signed by a member of the Transition Committee, Prince Kassim Afegbua, accused Governor Obaseki of doing everything possible to frustrate the incoming governor.
“It is unheard of that the Governor was not invited to the inauguration ceremony, which reveals the level of pettiness that would prevail in this new dispensation”.
“The incoming government has made commitments to the vendors to the tune of N5bn in official capacity with many more expenses expected to be incurred on November 12, the day of the inauguration.
“It would indeed be a very sad day for Edo people who have hitherto witnessed prudent and judicious use of public funds to drive economic development in the State, to have their resources frittered in this manner”, Osagie said.
He added that the incoming government was throwing tantrums about the professional manner that the government had wound down as against the old practice where there would be wanton vandalisation of government property and assets.
