Edo Atmosphere Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has stated that he impaired private finances to buy his place of job chair later former Governor Godwin Obaseki left along with his chair, which carried Nigeria’s coat of palms.
The PUNCH studies that Okpebholo, who ran at the All Progressives Congress platform, used to be declared governor on September 22, 2024, later securing 291,667 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Birthday celebration and its governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who garnered 247,655 votes.
Talking on Thursday night all over an interview on Channels Tv’s Politics These days programme, the Edo Atmosphere governor added that moment he would no longer for my part probe his predecessor, “the system” would, and that monies taken can be recovered “when the time comes.”
“I’m really not the only probing them. The device will probe them. I’m telling you, such a lot cash is join to another factor. The ones monies will pop out when the era comes. I’m no longer going to cover anything else.
“Even when I entered government, I had to use my money to buy my seat. Obaseki took his seat. The chair, yes. It was in the office with the Nigerian Coat of Arms. He took it. Somebody who can take an office chair, tell me what he will not take,” he stated.
Okpebholo additionally stated that God used to be instrumental to his good fortune on the Edo Atmosphere governorship ballot, including that if he recontested in two decades, he would nonetheless win the election.
“Let me tell you, Edo people spoke. We were hungry for a change. Even in the next 20 years, I will win. When I won my Senate seat, there was a sitting senator. At that time, everything was working against us. There was no water in my place, there was no light, there was no road, there was no money, no fuel. Everything was against us. Compared to the PDP that was favoured. But yet, we won.”, he stated.
Requested how he deliberate to unite the circumstance and produce brotherly love between him and the opposition, Okpebholo mentioned, “These days, in case you take a look at it, I’m proud to mention that there’s no longer a lot opposition in Edo Atmosphere.
“Many of them know the truth. And many of them secretly even voted for me while they were still in the PDP because of what they were gaining from Obaseki.”