THEY WENT TO BENSON IDAHOSA UNI. TO CAMPAIGN...... Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu woo voters

Hehehe.....this election go hot ooooo.....The two leading  contestants in the Edo State governorship race, Godwin Obaseki and Osagie Ize-Iyamu, took the podium at the Benson Idahosa University, to woo voters with their manifestos.Obaseki of the ruling All Progressives Congress and Ize-Iyamu of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, according to a statement made available to our correspondent, appeared separately at a two-day interactive session organised by the International Leadership Idea Exchange on the Benson Idahosa University campus.


The interactive session was with the theme, “Why You?”Obaseki, who took the stage on the first day of the interactive session, seized the opportunity to harp on his dream of making Edo State the food basket of the whole nation.The aspirant, who said his agricultural programme would focus on the production of oil palm, cassava, cocoa, grains, rubber, fruits and vegetables, assured the people that the initiative would create over 20,000 jobs for citizens.Obaseki urged the people to vote him to enable his party, APC, consolidate on his efforts to implement the blueprint it had for the state.“There is so much we have done and we need someone who understands this to continue in that trajectory,” Obaseki said. Ize-Iyamu, who spoke on the second day of the interactive session, said he was in the race to correct the wrongs done in the state during the reign of the APC.In his own remark, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the People’s Democratic Party said he is in the governorship race because he is deeply concerned about the happenings in the state.He explained that his focus would be on infrastructural development as an instrument for attracting investment to the state.

He said, “I am not contesting because I am concerned or passionate to rule but because I also have the experience to change things for better in the state.”On job creation, he said investments in industries would however translate to jobs.The PDP candidate said the ruling APC government lacked creativity because, according to him, the government had “depended only on payments of taxes and allocations from Abuja.”“The more attractive we make investments, the better it is for the state,” Ize-Iyamu added.The President of Benson Idahosa University, Bishop FEB Idahosa, who moderated the session, said the program was organised “to give our students and the general public the opportunity to think and address issues and develop the spirit of democracy.”‎