Edo APC chieftain hails Okpebholo’s ₦2.5 Billion UBTH intervention

…as Mayaki knocks Obaseki’s 8 years of excuses

Edo APC chieftain, John Mayaki, has praised Governor Monday Okpebholo for his ₦2.5 billion intervention in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), describing it as a bold move that places the lives of Edo people above politics.

Mayaki, in a statement on Wednesday, said Governor Okpebholo had once again demonstrated that leadership is about service and results, not excuses and grandstanding.

He said, “Governor Okpebholo is showing clearly that he is not here to play politics with the health and welfare of Edo people. The ₦2.5 billion donation to UBTH proves that to him, the ownership of a hospital does not matter. What matters is that Edo people are the ones receiving care there,” he said.

The APC chieftain drew a sharp contrast with the immediate past Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who, during his eight-year rule, consistently abandoned federal roads across the state under the excuse that they belonged to the Federal Government.

“For eight years, Edo people groaned on terrible federal roads while Obaseki folded his hands and claimed they were not the state’s responsibility. Today, Governor Okpebholo is fixing those same federal roads without excuses”.

Continuing, Mayaki said, “because there are no ‘federal people’ using federal roads in Edo State, only Edo people. And so, Okpebholo has shown the difference between failed leadership and true leadership,” Mayaki noted.

He wondered why critics who now lament the governor’s investment in UBTH did not raise the same arguments when Okpebholo took up the burden of rehabilitating federal roads.

His words, “Why are the lamenters not shouting about the federal roads the governor is fixing? Why is it only when lives are being saved through UBTH that they suddenly remember the word ‘federal’? The truth is that their anger is not about federal or state facilities, it is about the fact that Okpebholo is dismantling their culture of excuses and exposing their years of failure,” Mayaki fired.

He called on Edo people to rally behind the governor, describing him as a leader with a human face who places people before politics, service before excuses, and action before noise.