President Bola Tinubu has begged Edo State voters to give him a second term to finish the work his administration has started in the state.
Tinubu, who was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, made the appeal on Thursday in Benin City, where the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council APC-PCC held its rally in the state.
“We have come this far with your trust and we seek your mandate to finish the work we have begun,” Shettima told the crowd.
He said some of the work had been completed, some were underway and other commitments remained.
“We ask that our stewardship be judged by the lives our decisions have touched and the work we are determined to complete. We are determined to build roads on which a trader and aggregator could no longer lose money to delays,” he said.
He said work had begun to dualise the roads to Ekpoma, Auchi and Okene, while emergency repairs were ongoing on the Benin to Asaba road.
“You have every right to hold us to our word until you can travel these roads in comfort,” he said.
On power, the Vice President said gas now flows through the completed Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben pipeline, and that new transmission lines could carry an additional 600 megawatts onto the national grid.
He added that the University of Benin Teaching Hospital now offers radiotherapy to cancer patients, and that the Federal Government had supported 158 public health facilities across Edo.
Shettima also said the administration had heard the demand for the return of the Benin treasures. “We have seen progress in this regard with Cambridge and Sweden transferring ownership of Benin treasures to Nigeria,” he said.
