Edo: Obaseki’s sack of commissioner, admittance of failure –APC

BENIN CITY – THE Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said the sack of the state Commissioner for Roads and Bridges, Newton Okojie by Governor Godwin Obaseki was an admittance of the failure of the administration.

A statement by the State Assistant Publicity Secretary of the APC, Ofure Osehobo quoted the state chairman of the party, Col David Imuse (rtd) as saying that rather than sack the Commissioner, Obaseki should have taken the bullet by resigning from office.

The state government through the Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare announced the removal of Okojie.

The APC statement read ” Edo people are not surprised that six years of Obaseki’s government has only brought about sorrow, unwarranted pain and anguish with deliberate falsehood as official policies”.

“The governor cannot shoulder responsibility. He plays the ostrich and refuses to accept the blame for the position he has put Edo: fallen standard of education with no teachers, collapse of infrastructure across all sectors, epileptic healthcare services and an unsafe State”. Vanguard