Ogbemudia joins guber race, vows to combat hunger, insecurity in Edo

From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin

A governorship aspirant of the Edo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP), Ogbemudia Bassey Osagie, said he would capitalize on the vast arable land to tackle the issue of hunger in the state if elected governor in the forthcoming governorship election.

This was disclosed after a meeting of the leadership of the party drawn from the three senatorial districts and local government areas of the state.

Ogbemudia said the state was blessed with natural and human resources and that he was going to capitalize on them to turn the fortune of the state around.

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He said being a youth, he was going to mobilize his fellow youths to go into mechanized farming by making the necessary equipment and funds available to encourage them, so that hunger could be a thing of the past.

He said that there was no reason for hunger in the land because the state was so blessed with both human and natural resources.

The governorship hopeful, who is a trained security expert, insisted that, as a security person, he was going to deploy his wealth of experience of many years to assist the law enforcement agencies combat crime and criminality in the state, as there could not be meaningful development where crimes thrived.

Speaking on the capacity of the governorship aspirant to emerge winner at the forthcoming polls, Chief Reuben Aizenabor, the Protem Chairman of the Ogbemudia Osagie Campaign Organisation, also said that the aspirant had the youthfulness, charisma, doggedness and a noticeable shared love between him and the Edo people, to boost his chances of winning the Labour Party primary and the governorship poll.

Aizenanor also said that LP, which is the dominant party in Edo State, as shown by the last presidential election, could easily favour Ogbemudia, who as a youth, had something in common with the greater numbers of voters, who were youths.