The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it cannot fault the party’s state chairman’s claim that Edo people have been pushed below the poverty line.
Recall that the APC chairman, Jarret Tenebe, had said that poor rural dwellers in Edo State could not afford Android phones or data and watch DSTV.
Tenebe had stated this during a Thursday interview session with Arise TV.
There, he also disclosed that the APC governorship candidate, Mike Okpebholo, will not honour the channel’s request for an interview.
Speaking on Tenebe’s stance, the APC, through its Director of Publicity, Orobosa Omo-Ojo, on Friday, said, “The statement made by our State Chairman, Jarret Tenebe, that Edo State has been pushed below the poverty line by Governor Obaseki and as such, the majority of the poor rural dwellers are unable to buy Android phones or data, aptly defines the miserable hardship that has been caused by the PowerPoint administration of the PDP in Edo State.
“No analysis of junk data coming from any onlooker, observing from his armchair in Lagos, Abuja, or anywhere outside Edo State, will abort the plan of stakeholders to own their destiny. Edo people will not allow rent seekers to peddle plagiarised figures and data that do not reflect the physical conditions in Edo State.
“It is unethical for pseudo-commentators to make spurious judgements on the state of affairs in Edo, except for someone who has gone around the 18 local government areas. In this regard, the APC is inviting independent journalists, to join the APC campaign train to the 192 wards to gather organic and substantiated data on the local economic development from Edo rural dwellers.”
The statement urged media houses to document the ecological disaster in Edo under Governor Obaseki, highlighting the deteriorating conditions in the Evbueghae Community.