Former Governor Godwin Obaseki and Governor Monday Okpebholo
Edo: Obaseki speaks as Gov Okpebholo set to probe past govt
Former Governor Godwin Obaseki has reacted to the move by the government of Governor Monday Okpebholo to probe the previous administration.
Okpebholo on Sunday approved the formation of a 14-member State Assets Verification Committee to investigate his predecessor, Obaseki’s administration.
Members of the committee are scheduled to be sworn in on Tuesday.
Reacting, Crusoe Osagie, media aide to Obaseki, has described the probe of his principal’s administration as a “smokescreen” to cover the incompetence of the Okpebholo administration.
According to Osagie, the probe is an attempt to “distract from glaring incompetence and lack of direction” on the part of the current administration. He emphasized that Obaseki’s administration was “one of the most transparent, accountable, and prudent governments in the history of Nigeria.”
“This is another in the list of the barrage of meaningless probes which the governor and his directionless government is embarking on since they got into Dennis Osadebey avenue through the back door.
“He has therefore resorted to these charades of empty probes to buy time and distract from his incompetence and unpreparedness for office.
“He should stop his futile and failed attempt to fool the people of Edo State who have already seen him for who he truly is: a politician out of his depth who has become a tool in the hands of his many godfathers who are thirsty for vendetta, having for long been denied access to the people’s patrimony by the immediate past government of His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.
“It is on record that the Obaseki administration achieved an unprecedented level of transparency in governance, laying a solid foundation for fiscal discipline, which was why it was able to accomplish the numerous milestones recorded across various sectors of the state.
“So, we know what their plans are with the diversionary probes. It is just a smokescreen to mask the governor-select’s incompetence and unpreparedness for office, having come into power through a stolen mandate.
“We want to advise Okpebholo to focus on governance and improving the lives of Edo people rather than waste state resources masking his incompetence in meaningless probes.
“Edo people are watching and his short-span government which lasts until the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) reclaims its mandate duly given to it by Edo voters will be judged not by the noise it makes but by the impact it delivers.”
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