PDP Blasts Okpebholo Over Bloated Appointments, Plans To Squander ₦4.2 Billion

The Edo Issue Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) has accused Governor Monday Okpebholo and his deputy, Dennis Idahosa, of leaving within the support of the advise for foreign trips without any obvious route or handover procedure.

Twinny News studies that the opposition event, in an announcement thru its Publicity Secretary, Chris Osa Nehikhare, said the foreign dash back and forth has plunged the advise trusty into a dangerous leadership vacuum.

PDP additionally condemned Okpeholo’s most modern quiz to the Edo Issue Dwelling of Assembly to verify 28 commissioner-nominees, and plans to squander ₦4.2 billion of taxpayers’ money on luxury SUVs.

The assertion read, “This reckless dereliction of accountability has plunged Edo trusty into a dangerous leadership vacuum at a time when citizens are groaning below economic hardship, worsening insecurity, and stalled public products and companies hiss penalties of the ineptitude of the APC-led administration at each the federal and advise ranges.

“Critical more disturbing is the governor’s most modern quiz to the Edo Issue Dwelling of Assembly to verify 28 commissioner-nominees a figure that will win this the most bloated Government Council within the history of the advise. We are mindful that the governor has already concluded plans to squander ₦4.2 billion of taxpayers’ money on luxury SUVs for these commissioners, every costing an hideous ₦150 million.

“This reckless expansion of authorities comes on high of a rising military of Special Advisers, board chairmen, people, and heads of parastatals—appointments that delight in pushed the worth of governance in Edo to an all-time excessive in our 34-300 and sixty five days history.”

PDP additional advised Okpebholo to prioritise workers’ welfare by elevating the minimal wage love quite loads of states and demanded his immediate return to confront the urgent job of governance.

The assertion added, “While quite loads of states are prioritizing workers’ welfare by elevating the minimal wage according to increased allocations from the Federation Epic, the Okpebholo/Idahosa administration is fixated on buying SUVs, “sharing the money,” and settling political IOUs.

“This wasteful spending spree is awfully offensive at a time when Edo hospitals are collapsing, colleges lack teachers, roads delight in change into demise traps, and communities are left at the mercy of bandits and kidnappers. Experiences abound of delayed payment of workers’ entitlements, abandoned construction projects, and worsening insecurity—but the governor and his deputy desire never-ending foreign junkets and reckless extravagance.

“Are Okpebholo and Idahosa unaware that farmers in Uhunmwonde and Ovia North-East delight in abandoned their farmlands as a consequence of assaults by armed gangs? Lift out they now now not know that kidnappers proceed to terrorize highways and communities all over Edo, while markets in Benin and various cities are now now now not catch, with traders forced to conclude early out of fright?

“We flee Governor Okpebholo and his deputy to directly stop their reckless junketing in a foreign nation and return house to confront the urgent job of governance restoring security, fixing colleges and hospitals, paying workers, repairing roads, and giving Edo other folks the respect they deserve.”

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