Edo poll: Okpebholo vows to revive Ehor juice factory, technical college
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, has promised to revive the Ehor Juice Factory established by the Lucky Igbinedion administration.
Okpebholo stated this on Sunday at Ehor during the APC Ward to Ward campaign in Uhunmwode Local Government Council Area.
The APC governorship candidate also promised to ensure that the technical college becomes functional again.
Okpebholo said the juice factory, when functional, would help to prevent the loss presently being experienced by the pineapple producers in Uhunmwode and other local government areas of the state.
He said, “We are all aware that Uhunmwode Local Government Area is one of the highest pineapple-producing local governments in Edo State, if not Nigeria.
“So there is a need to provide the factory that will buy and process the products from the farmers, instead of allowing them to riot away in the farm without buyers, hence my promise to revive the Ehor Juice Factory.
“We will revive, equip and recruit teachers for the technical college so that it will become one of the best in the country.”
Also speaking, an APC chieftain, Charles Idahosa, told the people that the only tarred road in Uhunmwode was done by former Governor Adams Oshiomhole, noting that the technical college has been turned into a garri factory.
He pleaded with the people of Uhunmwode to vote for the APC on September 21, saying that Okpebholo had promised to better the lives of the people in the local government.
On his part, the Director General of the APC Campaign Committee, Matthew Urhoghide, appealed to the people to vote for APC on election day.
Urhoghide said both Edo North and Central have all agreed with the Esan agenda, hence their choice of Senator Okpebholo as their party candidate, adding that the APC candidate would listen to the yearning of the people.
Oshiomhole said he brought Okpebholo to them so that they could hear what he intended to do for the people of Uhunmwode.
He pleaded with them to vote APC on election day as Okpebholo had promised to give them a general hospital when he resumed office as governor of Edo State.
At Eguaeholor, where the candidate and the campaign team met with the party supporters from Isi North and South Wards, Okpebholo expressed shock that the main road leading to Governor Godwin Obaseki’s ancestral home was not motorable as the campaign team had to pack most of their vehicles and trek the distance to access the campaign ground.
Okpebholo assured the people that the road would be done within 100 days of his administration in office.
In Ugoneki, Egbede/ Ohuan ward, a former governorship candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, urged the people not to vote for PDP on September 21, adding that the APC government would provide water, electricity, tarred roads and electricity when voted into power.
