From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
An aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Edo State chapter, Amb Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, said he would replicate the developmental feats of late Prof Ambrose Alli if elected governor of the state come 2024.
He said this during a media chat with Journalists in Benin City.
Amb Uhomoibhi said that the Esan district has only had the opportunity to produce governor twice since the history of the state, which were Prof Ambrose Alli and Prof. Osarieme Osunbor and that ever since, the region has not been given the chance to produce governor.
Uhomoibhi said given his pedigrees and as a former diplomat, he is going to combine all to drive development to the state.
“In Edo history, Esan senatorial district, we have only had two opportunities to produce candidates for governor.
The first one is, Professor Ambrose Alli, the professor of Morbid Anatomy and the second is Prof. Osarieme Osunbor, the professor of Law.
“The enduring legacies he (Ambrose Alli) left, people still talk about it today regardless of his party, Ambrose Alli University, and many others, administrative sense, scholarship, bursary for students which I will revive by God’s grace,” Amb Uhomoibhi said.
He said the call to govern the state is a call to serve the people and not the people to serve him.
He said it is out of place for those who said they have come to serve the people to be amassing wealth to the detriments of the people they have come to serve adding that he is coming to right the wrongs in the Edo State politics.
He said he does not have a godfather but God Almighty, stressing that with Him by his side, he sure of victory at the poll.
“Yes, godfathers are at work. I wish them well. I have one father, is God Almighty,” Uhomoibhi said.
He said Nigeria as a country is blessed but the problem is that its citizens are ungrateful.
He said there is no country in the world where you will not find a Nigerian holding sway and making headways.