….. Urges Him not to Relent on Developmental Strides
A Benin Based legal practitioner, Barr. Paul Imolode has congratulated Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo on his victory at the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal.
The tribunal, in a unanimous judgement, had upheld the election and declaration of governor Monday Okpebholo as the winner of September 21, 2024 Edo State Governorship Election.
Speaking on the development, Barr. Imolode observed that the tribunal did a thorough job in determining the petition brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Barr. Asue Ighodalo before arriving at its decision.
According to the legal practitioner, the PDP and its candidate failed to provide enough evidence to justify their claims of electoral malpractices, as the issue of election petition requires firsthand information and cannot be based on a mere hear-say.
While recognizing the rights of PDP and ASue Ighodalo to appeal the judgement of the tribunal, Barr. Imolode, however, implored them to jettison the idea and work with governor Okpebholo who has expressed his readiness to welcome and work with members of opposition parties for the progress and overall development of the state.
Barr. Imolode commended governor Okpebholo for his developmental strides so far, and encouraged him not to relent in providing the basic necessities of life as well as other infrastructures to the people of the state.
“Right now, people are seeing what Okpebholo is doing, I just hope he would keep the tempo like this, meet the people at the points of their needs. In the area of health, in the area of roads, schools and things like that.
“The wishes of the people are few; good health, agriculture, road, electricity and things like that. If the roads are good then people can bring farm produce to the town at cheaper rate. If he performs, he would gained a second chance. Nigerians are more concern about performance , not who you are, not the party, that is how I look at it,” he stated.
