Governor Obaseki Insists On Probing Adams Oshiomhole

 

Obaseki, who said this on Sunday in Benin City, the state capital, at the party organised to celebrate the victory of Chief Dan Orbih as the National Vice Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Benin home of former PDP BoT Chairman, Chief Anthony Anenih, said that the probe of Oshiomohole, who was the governor of the state from 2008 to 2016, would not be jettisoned.

Obaseki, it would be recalled, had on February 22, this year, while inspecting a project at Textile Mill Road axis of Benin City, ‎alleged that the N30 billion Benin Water Storm project was conceived to defraud Edo people, adding that his administration would probe the project and recover all the money allegedly stolen through it.

Governor Obaseki fell out with his erstwhile benefactor and godfather, Oshiomohole, when crisis of supremacy ensued between him and the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), culminating in the disqualification of Obaseki and his joining the PDP to win the September 19, 2020, governorship election on one hand and the suspension and eventual removal of Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the ruling APC.

On the deliberate probe, the governor stated: “I don’t need to look back however to always look forward and you've raised some problems which we will’t forget about. Yes I turned into part of that management, because I agree with Edo must expand, so I sacrificed my time for eight years to assist organise the kingdom, I went to the marketplace, to the arena financial institution to raise money for the kingdom to increase.

“But with what I actually have visible in the books, I look like a idiot. While I became arranging price range and different things, I didn’t’ realize that money I became raising for the nation become being filtered away. I don’t like probing, I like to go forward but it has grow to be very tough because when I look at the contracts that I have presented in 2020, take a look at the value of those contracts, after I as compared them to the ones provided 10 years in advance, humans have questions to reply,” he brought.

According to him, “We aren't a government that want to prosecute human beings or victimise each person, however the truth must be told, Edo people need to recognize how we offered $2 hundred million contract 10 years in the past and we've paid each amount of that contract, it has now not been completed.

“Edo people have to be told how a project that is supposed to eliminate flood from Benin City created more flood. I am now not an engineer however we will call them to tell us what took place. They have to provide an explanation for to Edo people how we have been capable of award contracts approximately a tent of the cost and achieve more with that money than they did 10 years ago.”

“This form of behaviour should stop and you can’t do something incorrect and be shouting that a person is wrong due to the fact you don’t need human beings to know what you did wrong,” Obaseki stated.

Obaseki, nevertheless inside the euphoria of his victory at the Appeal Court on Friday, attributed the judgement of the appellate courtroom which rejected the enchantment of the APC on the certificates forgery case against him, to the prayers and help of Edo people

“They have dragged us to every court inside the land but with your prayers and help, God has persisted to present us victory. When we took over remaining November, I told you to present us time to have a look at governance because I have been in authorities and I known so many matters that aren't right and God has given us the opportunity to come again and with what we're doing now, our birthday party will not remorse it,” the Governor said.

While applauding Orbih’s victory on the PDP zonal congress, Obaseki mentioned that the PDP National Vice Chairman had plenty of paintings to do as chairman of the quarter.

“We expect you'll deliver the presidency to the region and God has given our region all it takes to have it, due to the fact all the governors inside the region belong to at least one birthday celebration. This is the area that has now not completed it presidency, we have one term and that they have to deliver us in 2023 and he's the man with a purpose to make it take place,” he said.