GOVERNOR in the mud’, as Governor Godwin Obaseki’s new name re-vibrates across the social media as he was trapped in mud in a viral video yesterday, Trojan News Media Correspondent revisited his legion of promises made to Edo citizens to fix the failed portions of the road.
On November 29, 2021 Governor Obaseki addressed protesting youths at Ogheghe Community junction with a promise to fix the failed portions in two weeks once they step off from blocking the road. Godwin Obaseki promised the protesters that he would mobilize contractors to the bad spot.
One of the protesters and spokesman for the protesting youths, Mr Daniel Omoregbe, the Okaighele of Ogheghe Community, thanked the Governor and other Edo state government officials for promise to fix the dilapidated and deplorable portions of the Benin-Sapele road.
On November 30, 2021, the Governor made good his promise. Mr Daniel Omoregbe the Okaighele of Ogheghe Community and other community members were seen in a viral video celebrating the arrival of the two contractors Governor Obaseki promised the previous day.
In a shocking development, the contractors disappeared from the roads two weeks later when the governor refused to pay the contractors.
Sources in Edo State Government House today our Correspondent that Governor Obaseki merely deceived the people because he didn’t actually mobilize the contractors, financially.
“Obaseki is a fraudulent scam artist who is in the deceiving Edo people each step of the way.
“The contractors he mobilized to the failed portions of Sapele Road were not paid their mobilized financially that was why they exited.
“Don’t listen to the enfant terrible media propaganda spewing falsehood that the Federal Government sent military and police officers to chase the contractors away from rehabilitating the road
“At least, we’re celebrating the Governor in the mud and several others incidents captured on camera on that roads.
“You’re a journalist, tell the governor and his social media urchins to show you the video clips where the Nigerian Army and the police chased the contractors out from working on that road.
“The other day, Edo State Deputy Governor Phillip Shaibu exposed the State Governor at Ovia River in an accident scene, where 15 persons lost their lives that the government refused to fix the road because federal government didn’t refund Edo State Government for the previous ones they rehabilitated.
“This is the type of government you have when heartless individuals who are regularly on substance are elected into leadership power.
“That is why a Deputy Governor of a state would be talking about federal government refund in the scene of accident where tax payers are moaning their deaths”, the sources said.
