The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for September 21 governorship election, Bar Asue Ighodalo, yesterday promised to continue the Infrastructural drive by the Godwin Obaseki administration if he wins the election.

Ighodalo, who was speaking at flag-off ceremony of the PDP Governorship Campaign in Ubiaja, Esan South East local government area of Edo State also pledged to give incentives to farmers, scholarships to students in Edo State. He bemoaned the economic situation in the country, adding that ,”Obaseki has been trying to shield Edo people from the situation.

He said.”We are ready to continue where our governor stopped,we will take Edo State to the next level,if a man wants to build a house,he has to start from the foundation, Governor Obaseki has started the foundation and we will continue from where he stopped. The works they have done for the past eight years will soon begin to show.

“By the next one year, we will begin to miss the governor,but myself and Osarodion will do our best to maintain his good works. We all know the suffering on the ground,we all know the problem in Nigeria.

Since, January this year,they just said something in Abuja, and our lives have gone down since and the governor has been trying to shield us from the harsh condition created by the APC and that is what myself and Osarodion will continue

“Before you can leave your house by 2.00am, but, at a time, it became impossible due to insecurity until when Obaseki came and stopped it,now you can go out and do your business, but that is what we will continue to improve on In Edo State.”

On security, he said his government will ensure the state is monitored from the situation room and that his government will continue the EdoBEST which has produced good results and will make it better.

“The work that he has done on agriculture,we will continue from there,we will give incentives to cassava farmers,oil palm producers. Edo has been the number one in oil palm,but at a time we left it. Today, Obaseki has brought it back and we are number one today.”

Speaking at the event, Governor Obaseki said he has known Ighodalo for the past 40 years and that he can vouch for him as having the love of his people at heart.

Obaseki urged Edo people to vote for Ighodalo in order to continue his good works, maintaining that Ighodalo was part of those that fought for democracy.

Obaseki said “When we approached him to come run for governor, he said it was a great sacrifice for him to leave his business and come run for governor, but I told him it will be unfair for him not to come serve his people.

“For somebody to give up so much,he is not looking for money,he is not looking for fame,he is not looking for fortune,he just has the love of his people at heart.

“The two of them will do it, those who said, they will destroy EdoBEST, because it is Edoworst. That is the problem,if we had started EdoBEST earlier, we would not have produced that kind of candidate that does not know how to read and write,he would have known how to read , write and think.” Obaseki said.