Edo: Obaseki expects his reforms to remain intact under Okpebholo

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Monday expressed optimism that some of his administration’s reforms would remain intact after his exit from office on November 11.

The governor, who spoke with journalists in Lagos, said his government had made efforts to institutionalise some of the reforms.

He said: “The people are very aware of our reforms and legacies we are leaving behind. I don’t think because there is a change in government, they will change some of these reforms.

“Even if the government this is coming doesn’t support or encourage them as we used to, they (reforms) will not disappear.

“Beyond this, in the reforms we have undertaken, we have institutionalised or started the process of institutionalising some of them.

“The people know, and I doubt if they will keep quiet for long, allowing things to go back to what it used to be without complaining or shouting.

“I’m optimistic that reforms will last.”

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He said workers and parents whose children were enjoying EdoBEST e-learning education and other initiatives, would not allow the Governor-elect, Mobday Okpebholo, to tamper with them.

Obaseki argued that his administration had restored respect to civil service, revolutionalised education, improved electricity, internet connectivity and road infrastructure, among others in the state.

He added: “What are the critical infrastructures we need today? Fundamentally, in Nigeria, people need electricity, connectivity, and roads.

“We are lucky in a way in Edo because of our location. We are a core, a hub for electricity.

“Edo is the cheapest point to generate electricity because it costs about a million dollars for a kilometer of gas pipeline.

“And it also costs about a million dollars for a kilometer of transmission. Edo is that point where electricity transmission meets gas transmission.

“So, if you generate electricity in Edo today, you can upload and sell it into the grid.

“Edo also has the largest onshore reserves of gas. Most of our gas is either deep offshore or in the swamp.”

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