“There is nothing else that gladdens the hearts of voters and the public, and also makes elected public happy, like the tangible development and peaceful coexistence His Excellency, Senator Monday, had brought to Edo State, within a year he had been elected and sworn in as her governor. With the high speed he is dishing out democracy deliverables to the people, he would at the end of the day, engrave his name in gold, as the best-performing governor, since the creation of the state in 1991”.
Said, Mr. Goddy Francis Okoyo; in his congratulatory message “of a-job-well-done” to the governor, on the activities marking his one year stay in office.
It was culled from a statement he made available to journalists in Benin City, the state capital.
Mr. Okoyo, a Canada-based Chartered Accountant and Behavioural Scientist, emphasized that the numerous solid projects he had attracted to the state, in the various aspects of governance, spreading uniformly across the three senatorial districts, consisting the18 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state, showed that Governor Okpebholo is, indeed, a promise keeper, for beginning to fulfil his electioneering pledges to the people.
He also used the opportunity to call on leaders and other members of the state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the opponent political parties and the populace, to join hands with the governor, as constituted stakeholders, to bring the best of development and peace to the state, postulating further that “there cannot be a viable state without peaceful citizenry conducts and joint-meaningful development”.
Mr. Okoyo, more known as GFO, his acronym, is a longstanding member of the APC from Ugboha Ward of Esan South East LGA of the state, who had served as Director of Diaspora Affairs in the state’s 2024 Election Campaign Council that helped to elect the governor, as well as he served on the Diaspora sub-committee that assisted the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
