1st Anniversary: Okpebholo Set To Showcase Projects, Says Edo No Longer On MoU — Afegbua

The Edo State Government under Governor Monday Okpeholo-led administration on Monday said the government was set to showcase people-friendly projects as the administration turns one year in office come November 12, 2026.

The State government said unlike the previous administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki, whose projects were only captured in Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Okpeholo administration has executed projects cutting across critical sectors of the state, ranging from health, agriculture, road infrastructure, security and Employment.

The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prince Kassim Afegbua, at a press conference in Benin City ahead of the one year anniversary, insisted that Governor Okpeholo, driven by strong political will, tackled the rots inherited since his assumption in office on November 12, 2024.

Afegbua accused the previous government of pilfering away the state’s resources through ‘Edo Best’, which he described as a ‘conduit pipe’ by paying consultants a whooping sum of N160m monthly.

“It is shocking that in Edo state today, there are schools without windows and roofs, but thank God, Okpeholo is reclaiming it. Civil servants were abandoned and consultants were used,” he stated.

On the issue of insecurity, Afegbua said the government on assumption of office procured Hilux vehicles and motorbikes to security agencies in tackling the challenges of insecurity in the state.

Afegbua said, “The present administration came on stream on the 12th of November 2020. By this year, November 12th, 2025, we will be marking its one year in office. If we pretend that we didn’t inherit rots and decay in infrastructure, we will not be doing justice for our historical antecedent.

“Where we are coming from, the trajectory of governance is one that we thought Edo was already an El Dorado. As captured by the vuvuzelas of the previous administration, very active social media population who have been defending inanities of the past.

“But, we have a governor whom they denigrated. They literally thought he had no basis to contest election. They called him all kinds of names. They called him a panel-beater. Unknown to them, the panel-beaters are fixers of accidental vehicles.

“The Edo accidental vehicles are being presently panel-beated by Distinguished Senator Monday Okpebholo, the governor of Edo State. When you have a vehicle that is badly accidented, all the headlights are off. You only require a solid panel-beater to be able to fix such a vehicle. And I can tell you without any fear or favour, that the Edo accidental vehicle is being gradually fixed by Governor Okpebholo, and the vehicle has bounced back to the road again.”

“We are not pretending that in fixing that accidental vehicle, we have to step on toes. Toes in the area of cultism, toes in the area of kidnappers or kidnapping, toes in the area of those who plunder the resources of this state in a very wanton manner, toes against those who decided to detain the growth and development of Edo State,” he added.