You’ve failed Edo people, Oshiomhole blasts Ize-Iyamu

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has described Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his former chief of Staff as a failure, saying he (Pastor Iyamu) did not use his office to benefit his people.
The governor said this when he received over 2,000 market women from across the 18 local government areas of the state who paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House, Benin City.
“I defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in all the wards and local governments in the last election conducted and that was due to the massive support from you market women. After the defeat, a man who claims to be a Pastor, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, insisted on being imposed on Edo People as the governor. I refused because I said, ‘as former Chief of Staff to the State Government, what did you do?’
“What effort did you make in bringing development to Edo People? Did you give your people electricity? Did you give them water? Did you give them good roads? How did you influence the government in bringing development to even your constituencies? Did you bring hospital to the people?’
“Even as Secretary to the State Government, I requested to know from him how he impacted on the government. All the money that came from Abuja during his tenure as SSG, he was first to receive, what did he do with it? How many markets did he build with it? Which erosion did he assist in controlling even at a time when erosion was a threat to the people of the state?
“Everywhere I go, people begin to ask me, why did you always allow this man to go with you? Like you the market women have said, in the morning, you see some of them as PDP, at night they become APC, and how can you commit the resources of the State to such people?” Oshiomhole asked.
Leader of the women, Madam Blacky Omoregie said the state could not afford to go back to the dark days when the state was backward.
“The Peoples Democracy Party is shouting war when there is no war. By the time the war will start, they will have no other option but to save their own various heads. We market women are the people that vote, so we are waiting for them in the field”, she concluded.