Mr. Kassim Afegbua (L) and Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
A debt of N325 billion allegedly incured by the administration of Godwin Obaseki, Edo State governor, awaits his successor. Kassim Afegbua, one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants in Edo State, made this claim while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Friday.
Afegbua, a former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, further claimed that if elected governor of the state during the September 21 polls, he would turn the fortunes of the state around for the people.
Accusing the governor of plunging the state into debt, Afebua lamented that Edo had been in the news for the “wrong reasons”.
Said he: “For me, anybody who is taking over from the Governor of Edo State with 325 billion as our debts will have a huge task on our hands. So, we must put our thinking cap on and think outside the box, which can generate ideas.
“We must keep the conversation around governance going to ensure that we are able to do that which will help our people to advance their collective interests”.
The APC aspirant said he would beg the Federal Government if the situation demanded fixing the bad road from Auchi to Benin.
He said that it would not be out of place to plead with the Federal Government to get a special grant to construct the road from Auchi to Edo State capital.
Noted he: “For God sake, Edo State is in the news for the wrong reason; there is huge infrastructural decay. Address them; instead, you go and put a sign board and say this is Federal Government roads. What about the ones that are state roads, have you done anything to warrant applause from the people?”
