19/09/2024
📢 Omokri Tells Edo Electorate The Political Party Not To Vote For In September 21 Governorship Election
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has sent a message to Edo electorate on the political party to avoid voting for in the September 21 governorship election. He also advise his supporters to ignore his former opinion. According to Omokri, Edo electorate should vote massively for Labour Party this time, but not the corrupt PDAPC.
Omokri took to social media to state his reasons for advising voting Labour Party in Edo governorship election. He wrote: Edo State, Please Vote For Labour party on Saturday, September 21, 2024.
I urge the people of Edo State to look at Abia State, the only Labour Party-run state in Nigeria. Just recently, Abia State celebrated building its first modern projects. They have also commissioned electricity and many people oriented projects for the past one year. Who in their right mind will not celebrate Abia in 2024?
Meanwhile, development in Benin and the Midwest Region, which later became Bendel, had stopped twenty-five years ago.
Edo state claim to be paying ₦70,000 minimum wage in May 2024 through borrowing from CBN, and that has plunged the state into serious debt amounting to N600bn, whereas other states are not struggling to debts as high as Edo state.
Then, look at the Labour Party itself. In shape with less problems and not factionalised. Respected Peter Obi and Alex Otti are in control. They have stabilised the pathway for a new national chairperson. When asked to name the authentic Chairperson, Peter Obi said only the Independent National Electoral Commission can do so, which INEC has declared that Abure's tenure is over. How can you not vote for a LP party which is supreme to other PDAPC parties suffering from multiple problems and personality syndrome?
Then, look at the matter of transparency in accounting for funds donated to the party. Peter Obi is transparent, but other parties are faced with accusations and counter-accusations. Their accounts are more opaque than the government’s finances. At least you know how much the President and his vice are spending recklessly. The media can run stories on the finances of the First Lady’s travels. But who can say where the millions of dollars donated by foreign agencies or loans borrowed by the President went?
No wonder Obi, who once said he would never fly on the sky of corruption, is yet to begin flying or mingling with the corrupt politicians during and after the campaigns. Edo, do you want your state funds to pay for politicians lifestyle or looting?
If Peter Obi can control the Labour Party can manage his own campaign finances, if he Alex Otti can manage Abia well, if they are being celebrated by the people in 2024, then evidently a vote for Olumide Akpata and the Labour Party on Saturday, September 21, 2024, is a vote for forwardness, don't let division, religion, low esteem, and opaque bribe/finances influence your vote.
And then, ask yourselves what Olumide Akpata of Labour party and Edo people said when Obaseki and some people insulted our beloved Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II. They defended the Oba of Benin. Remember that the revered Oba of Benin had to rebuke Obaseki and his government when he falsely dragged the palace to court. Imagine what such a fellow could do if his candidate becomes Governor. Obaseki's candidate has learnt disrespect for elders and authority from Obaseki and his cronies.
Vote for Labour and Edo will be the next “noble man’s land”. Yes, Edo no be Lagos. But with Olumide Akpata as governor, it is better for Edo to look like or better than Abia than to resemble Zamfara.
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