Monday, 23 May 2016

Gen. Charles Airhiavbere hopeful to pick APC governorship ticket in Edo State.

 
People Democratic Party (PDP's) governorship competitor in the 2012 Edo State guber­natorial race, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (retd.), says he is the man to beat All Progressives Congress' (APC) governorship primaries booked for June 18, 2016.

Airhiavbere, who decamped  to the APC in 2015, is one of the numerous wannabes, bumping for the APC governorship ticket in the September 10, Edo gubernatorial race.

"I remain before you to promise that I am the contender to beat since I have been tried, hav­ing challenged under PDP," he pronounced while addressing jour­nalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat in Benin, not long after arriving Benin from Abuja, where he ob­tained his demeanor of interest and designation shapes for the governorship primaries of his party.


He said he proclaimed his aspiration for the governorship at the NUJ Secretariat in light of the fact that with the circumstance in the APC, no one but writers could deal with the emergency in the party.

"I need to guarantee that the dele­gates will talk on the eighteenth of June and they will talk noisy and clear. I beg the representatives to evade pol­iticians' cash and vote their con­science and boldness," Airhiavbere said.

Asserting that of the considerable number of hopefuls, he was the nearest to Governor Ad­ams Oshiomhole, he sentenced the individuals who guaranteed to have support from some quarters and cautioned that Edo State couldn't stand to toy with the predetermination of its kids, including, "my destination in 2016 is Osadebey house."

The governorship cheerful, who exhibited a duplicate of his project, titled "My contract with the peo­ple", to the state NUJ Chairman, Sir Roland Osakue, said he joined the APC, since he needed Edo to re­main with the administration at the inside.

He praised Governor Osh­iomhole for being the main senator to have paid laborers' compensations to date in the South-South and for raising the lowest pay permitted by law to N25,000.

He guaranteed that if chose gov­ernors, he would make a condu­cive domain for venture that would make job. Airhiavbvere likewise guaranteed to fabricate a scaffold over the River Ni­ger to interface Agenebode with Idah and to likewise concentrate on training, the state economy, among others.

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