‘Obaseki Will Not Drink Panadol For Another Person’s Headache’, He’s Busy Lighting Up Edo
The Oasis Reporters
January 24, 2023
@gregabolo
@Theoasisreport1
A twitterati had wondered why Edo State governor has not been seen to be up and about canvassing support for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in his state.
Election is around the corner and there is no news of your campaigns and mobilization of voters for your party's candidates across Edo State. Is this docility or lack of capacity to be a party leader?
— Prince 2000Grams (Director of Protocol) (@Pomamegbe1) January 24, 2023
He got a swift answer from another twitterati from Edo State.
Which party? If you are PDP member better remove mind in Edo election. Edo belong to @PeterObi
— Son of man (@Iam_Osas90) January 24, 2023
Another response followed:
Obaseki is not a contestant and therefore mustn't drink Panadol for another man headache. Let him concentrate on electrifying Edo, what PDP Delta could not do in 7½ years despite the humongous amount of money that came in.
— Theoasisreporters (@Theoasisreport1) January 24, 2023
Indeed, development minded citizens in Edo State and outside would be unhappy if the governor takes time out of his onerous duties to start moving from ward to ward in search of electoral relevance at all.
Obaseki is one governor who has received wide acclaim for his developmental strides in governance.
You may wonder. The Niger Delta region has many governors. They are six of them. But it was only Governor Obaseki that Chimamanda Adichie invited to grace the occasion of her chieftaincy award.
The reason is that she has been quietly advocating for returning Nigeria back to the path of growth and development. What has constantly baffled her is the darkness all over Nigeria.
It made worldwide news when she spoke very nicely to the former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel wanting to know why the deal to electrify Nigeria didn’t work despite the agreement with Siemens of Germany.
Many Nigerians watched that interview. Now, Siemens AG is a privately owned global company with German roots. What she was doing was to go to the highest level of the German hierarchy to search desperately for answers. Merkel answered as best as she could, and promised to contact her after further research and investigations on the matter.
Provision of electric power shouldn’t necessarily be, what in Nigerian street lingo, be a “Jamb question” to the citizens of this country Nigeria.
If it is the availability of natural gas, the country flares it into the atmosphere freely. They’ve been doing that for more than sixty years.
Yet it’s older politicians could not wrap it around their heads to turn the gas into light for the citizenry. Youths in Ndokwa land, Isoko land and other local governments in Delta have been advocating for gas powered turbines in their areas due to the abundance of gas. They were ignored completely in Delta State.
But Obaseki probably heard their cries in the darkness of the neighboring State.
Even though his state is not as cash endowed as Delta, he did something pleasing in his state. So while the richer Delta remains in depressing darkness, Edo is being lit up.
Obaseki extends Ossiomo Power to Uselu Shell, Akpakpava, others, commissions 10km streetlights in New Benin pic.twitter.com/RSOuMmqOGB
— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) January 19, 2023
So why would Chimamanda Adichie not pick Obaseki to join at her day of glory?
That’s not the only thing that Obaseki is doing.
Unless we begin change our economic policies, the issue of job creation will continue to be a big problem. While capacity building is key to our development, better economic policies will help us create incentives, ensuring competitive and high-paying jobs for our people. 2/3 pic.twitter.com/pUwt7gNksp
— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) January 18, 2023
If a state has a governor like this, who’d like to lend him to political adventurism when there’s work to be done ?
Obaseki to transform Edo to hub for production of medicines, other pharmaceutical products
— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) January 20, 2023
…urges PSN support to strengthen regulation, improve primary healthcare system pic.twitter.com/VgrZQT8Ml9
This post is not necessarily an Obaseki showcase. That time will come someday.
As part of the launch, we also unveiled the state’s new engineering design capabilities to accelerate the process of interventions in flood and erosion as well as PikAmSel, an App developed to facilitate efforts at addressing the menace of plastic and aluminum can wastes. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/TlUvGk7EAb
— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) January 20, 2023
This post would soon be brought to an end. The time to showcase the governor would come one day.
The Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) is actively working with us, and this arrangement will see the Benin port become both a cargo handling port and an industrial complex which will handle industrial production across various value chains. 3/4 pic.twitter.com/CTWJtJv5UB
— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) January 24, 2023
It’s a good thing the people of Edo State voted wisely and refused to follow a dictatorial godfather pretender to abort the joy of Edo.
When we write about Obaseki at the appropriate time, we will showcase his Edo refinery and other things while a few other Governors in the region were walking on air and making irrelevant noise.
Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com
