BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
Benin City, Edo, Nigeria — Edo State 2024 gubernatorial aspirant Hon. Gideon Obhakhan has pledged to ensure quality education, improved agriculture, Information Communications Technology development, youths and women empowerment if elected the state governor.
A former commissioner for Education, Obhakhan who commended President Bola Tinubu for mustering the courage to have removed the long talked about petrol subsidy, said he would introduce programs to mitigate the effects of subsidy removal
“We are going to focus on the farm settlements you will be proud to go into. Second one will be on road infrastructure with particular attention on access roads to farms. We will also provide security so that people can go to farms”, he stated.
Hon. Gideon Obhakhan said this while speaking with pressmen at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council Secretariat in Benin City, today.
The gubernatorial hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), also said he would continue to appeal to Edo people to allow Edo Central Senatorial District take the 2024 governorship slot.
He said the lobby is very important because the Edo Central does not have the numerical strength to singlehandedly produce a governor, therefore has to garner support from other zones to actualize its ambition.
“So, for fairness and equity, we are lobbying and reaching out to other districts that for equity and fairness, they should support Esan extraction to produce the next governor after governor Obaseki,”Gideon Obhakhan said.
