LASCO, Edo forest-bearing communities, farmers drum support for Agba

[Press Release] Members of the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are activists/volunteers, farmers and land users, from adjoining forest reserves and farmers of the state, who are members of APC and its extended faithful, have been urged to nominate the immediate-past minister of state for Budget and National Planning and frontline aspirant in the party primary, Prince Clem Agba, in the exercise holding on 17th February, 2024, so that he could run for the off-season election holding later in September, and bring the much-needed rapid development to the state.

The appeal was made in two different press statements issued and made available to journalists in Benin City, the state capital, by leaders of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), and farmers and land users from over a hundred forest-reserve local communities, cutting across 13 local government areas (LGA) of the state, under the Coalition Against Landgrabbing and Deforestation (CALD), respectively.

In its own statement, LASCO, the oldest coalition in the country, urged the APC faithful to nominate Agba in the primaries, hence he is widely adjudged as the most competent and experienced, with a backlog of worthy and distinct pedigrees.

The LASCO statement was signed by Comrade Joseph Iziegbe Alfred, its First Vice Chairman and Secretary, Comrade Gabriel Ehiaguina.

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CALD’s statement, which was signed by its General Coordinator, Chief Reuben I. Aizenabor, added that Agba, if nominated and elected governor, would bring rapid development to Edo rural areas and promote adequate agricultural activities if elected governor.

Agba, he further said, had assisted farmers in the state, when as a former Commissioner of Environment, had revoked and gave back to Edo forest communities, over 25,000 hectares of land grabbed from them.