The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has inaugurated its campaign council ahead of the September 21, 2024, governorship election.
While inaugurating the council on Friday, Oshiomhole, said members of the party across over 4, 000 units, 192 wards and 18 local government areas are all members of the campaign council.
Oshiimole, a senator representing Edo North senatorial district in the National Assembly, said the party would win the forthcoming election in a free and fair contest.
He urged members to work hard to win their various units, awards and local government, respectively.
He said that with Senator Monday Okpebholo and Dennis Idahosa as the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the party, the party is sure of victory at the election.
According to him, every member and supporter of the APC is a member of the campaign for genuine change under the leadership of Senator Monday Okpebholo.
“Titles do not matter. I urged every member of the party in the state to work hard to win their units and wards. Every member is a canvasser,” he said.
He said he was ready to take on the role of sweeper and sweep Senator Monday Okpebholo into office as governor.
On his part, the Director General of the Campaign Council, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, who expressed joy at the inauguration, urged members to work hard, as the task of defeating the incumbent government was huge.
Urhoghide also urged party members to resolve their differences, work hard for the victory of the party and de-emphasise the role of money.
Earlier, the state chairman of the party, Jarrett Tenebe, who said Governor Godwin Obaseki was supposed to continue from where Oshiomhole stopped, noted that he failed as bad governance, perennial flooding and a lack of red-roof schools across the state were the hallmarks of the government.
He, however, acknowledged the late Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, Prof. Ambrose Alli and Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole as three governors who provided good governance for the state.
He promised that by the time Okpebholo and Dennis Idahosa come on board, those things would come back, expressing hope that the campaign council led by Senator Urhoghide would work hard to deliver victory to the APC.
He promised to restore the lost glory of the state in infrastructural, human capital and socioeconomic developments.
The governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, promised not to disappoint the party and the people of the state if given the mandate to govern the state.
The campaign council is made up of 36 directorates, with a chairman and director general has former Governor Adams Oshiomole as Chairman.
The council also has a Deputy Director General of Operations and Administration, a secretary, and coordinators in the three senatorial districts.
