By Oluwasegun Oyetunde
The Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State is insensitive to the plight of the people occasioned by the gross mismanagement of the economy by its government at the centre in the last nine years but has focused on spreading lies and propaganda to hoodwink the people of the State.
Nehikhare who spoke during a press conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital, said that despite the devastation caused by the APC Government, the party and its members in the State have buried their heads in the sand and continued to gush out lies and propaganda to dampen the people’s desire to break free from the stranglehold by which the APC has shackled them for the past nine years.
He noted that it was such a show of shame to see the party sitting before pressmen waving
worthless pieces of paper as evidence for non-existent fraud allegations against a State Government that has enthroned transparency and accountability in the cause of the administration of the State’s resources.
The Commissioner stated, “It has become imperative for us as representatives of our people in the State Government to draw the attention of the authorities and the members of the public to the plight of the Edo people and by extension the Nigerian people.
“Despite our best efforts to mitigate the suffering that Edo people and Nigerians have been plunged into by the APC Government through the increase in minimum wage, free WiFi in different parts of the State, free transport scheme that have benefited over six million Edo residents since its launch in September 2023, food palliative to millions of Edo people, free registration for pensioners into the State’s health Insurance Scheme, among others, we want to restate that the people are still going through untold hardship and this is as a result of the gross mismanagement of the economy by the APC as a government at the center in the last nine years.