Senator Adams Oshiomhole (file imge)
Edo has largest oil palm devt in Africa as evidence of Obaseki’s agric revolution
The Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media, Crusoe Osagie, has lambasted the state’s immediate past governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, for allegedly disparaging Governor Godwin Obaseki’s agricultural reforms and the state’s feeding programme for the vulnerable amid other statements aimed at undermining the government’s achievements.
Osagie, in a statement issued to the media, said that the government was disappointed that Oshiomhole would take to national television to make false statements to score cheap political points.
The governor’s aide, while reeling the government’s programmes to reduce the hardship and suffering of Edo people in the wake of the difficult living conditions in the country, arising from policies that have been implemented by the Federal Government, urged the Federal Government to approach the state government to understudy its thought-out mode of supporting the vulnerable in Edo State to fine-tune their model, which is fraught with irregularities and lack of transparency.
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His words: “The attention of the Edo State government has been drawn to comments by the former Governor of the State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, in which he disparaged Governor Godwin Obaseki’s agricultural reforms and the state’s feeding programme for the vulnerable amid other statements aimed at undermining the government’s laudable achievements.
“The government is most disappointed that someone of Senator Oshiomhole’s standing will take to national television to make statements that he knows to be completely false for the purpose of scoring cheap political points.
“Oshiomhole who is now representing just a section of the state, Edo North Senatorial District, after superintending over the entire State as Governor is expected to display more maturity and decorum and ensure that he rises above parochial, partisan interests.
“He ought to empathize with his people who are now reeling from the avoidable pains inflicted on them by ill-deployed Federal Government policies imposed by the All Progressives Congress administration for whom Oshiomhole now acts as a spokesman discountenancing the genuine displeasure being expressed by the people through the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests in Edo State and across the country.”
On Oshiomhole’s comments about the Governor Obaseki administration’s investment in agriculture, the governor’s aide stated, “It is expected that a sitting Senator should be abreast with the happenings in his home state, as today, Edo sits enviably as the number one sub-national with the largest oil palm development programme in Africa.
“Under the Edo State Oil Palm Programme (ESOPP), 70,000 hectares of oil palm estates are under cultivation across the state. Another 50,000 hectares of land is set to be allocated to large-scale commercial farmers in the state to expand their production. Currently, 10 investors are involved in ESOPP, including the Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dufil Prima Foods Limited, Fayus Inc., and Bravag Limited, among others.”
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