Edo State, the heartbeat of Nigeria, is relatively homogeneous culturally and linguistically. Yet, it is a chip off the old block, a microcosm in the many dimensions of the Nigerian politics notably, the geo-politics of power location often justified on the need for inclusivity and balance.
This has featured prominently in the primaries of the leading parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party , as to which of the Senatorial districts – Edo South, Edo Central and Edo North – should justifiably produce the next governor for the State. Regrettably the question as to competence in matters of governance has not been on the front burner.
The lack of long -term development plans with legislative backing at the national and sub-national levels is a draw back in our development agenda. It is a draw back because by it government is not a continuum and development is ad hoc and haphazard. It is worst when successive governments are of different political persuasion as was in indeed evident when President Buhari ignored the 2014 National Conference Report and the White Paper on Steve Oronsaye Committee’s Report.
Governor Obaseki as successor to Oshiomhole has brought finesse and panache devoid of prependalism in the affairs of State through the instrumentality of corporate governance, characterised by transparency, accountability, meritocracy and prudent management of resources, human and material, all of which geared towards creating an enabling environment for socio-economic development.
There is the CORA City project designed to create a new settlement and a new development hub projected on completion to house 50,000 people. Further, there is the Edo sea port project at Ughoton -GeleGele for which Mota Engil Africa has been selected as the preferred Bidder. The project when completed is envisaged to catalyse industrialisation of the State. The port is historic, the route through which the Portuguese first visited Benin in 1472 AD in the reign of Oba Ewuare the Great.
Further, there is the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub and Sound Stage for artistic production including films, theatrical works, music and photography for the overall development of the creative arts in the youth. There is also the Edo Tech Park in Okhoromi community, an elite software engineering and leadership training institute to produce software engineers for an increasingly digital economy, projected to produce about 15,000 of such human resource in five years.
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