President Bola Tinubu on Thursday appealed to the people of Edo State for a second term in office so his administration can complete projects already started in the state.
Vice President Kashim Shettima delivered the message on Tinubu’s behalf at an All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council rally in Benin City. “We have come this far with your trust and we seek your mandate to finish the work we have begun,” Shettima told the crowd.
He said some projects had been completed, others were ongoing, and further commitments remained. The government, he said, should be judged by the lives its decisions had touched and the work still to be finished. Shettima pointed to dualisation work already under way on the roads to Ekpoma, Auchi and Okene, plus emergency repairs on the Benin-Asaba road. “You have every right to hold us to our word until you can travel these roads in comfort,” he said.
On electricity, he said gas is now flowing through the completed Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben pipeline and that new transmission lines can carry an additional 600 megawatts onto the national grid. The University of Benin Teaching Hospital now provides radiotherapy for cancer patients, and the federal government has supported 158 public health facilities across Edo, he added.
Shettima also addressed the demand for the return of Benin artefacts, saying progress had been made with Cambridge and Sweden transferring ownership of some treasures to Nigeria.
Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo asked the Vice President to convey a clear message to Tinubu: the state is ready. “I need you to take this message back to Mr. President, that in Edo State we are ready. 16th January 2027,” Okpebholo said. He described Edo as a construction site and credited the President’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy and reform the tax law.
APC Presidential Campaign Council Director-General Abdulaziz Yari said the party’s manifesto prioritises security. He linked relative peace in the South-South to higher national oil production of about 1.8 million barrels per day and said the party expects two million votes from Edo.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio declared that the election in Edo was already decided. “We will vote massively for the president come 16th of January 2027,” he said. He listed the extension of the Lagos-Calabar Highway through Edo, the recruitment of more than 500 forest guards from among Edo youths, and the establishment of an 83 Division of the Nigerian Army in the state as gains for the people.
Former Edo governor Adams Oshiomhole noted that the rally coincided with the second anniversary of Okpebholo’s administration. He urged voters to support the party fully, saying a cooperative Senate was needed.
Imo Governor Hope Uzodimma, chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, called on residents to collect their permanent voter’s cards. He said the governor had promised 2.5 million votes from the state and described the PVC as “the weapon we need on January 16th.”
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