Edo Guber: Group Picks APC Nomination Forms for Dr Umakhihe



Members of Board of Trustees of Edo Unity League Worldwide



By Editor
January 27, 2024



Edo Unity League Worldwide (EULW), a none partisan socio-cultural organisation has purchased the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, one of the aspirants for the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State 

DailyMonitorngr reports that members of the organization are drawn from all the 18 Local Government Areas of the state.

Umakhihe, is aspiring for governorship position on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Group was represented by some Board of Trustees members, led by Chief Victor Ekhator, the Enobore of Benin Kingdom, Comrade Orobosa Omo-Ojo and  Comrade Aiyamenkhue Edokpolo during the purchase of the forms.

While handing over the forms to Edo Unity League, Director of Youth Organisation, Mr. Marvis Okharedia, the Deputy National Organizing Secretary, Mr. Nze Chidi Duru, thanked the BoT members for identifying a member of the APC worthy of the organization's support. 

A statement made available to newsmen at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja reads in part: "Rising from an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Edo Unity League Worldwide (EULW), we have resolved to play a more proactive role in the political leadership process of our dear State, rather than the mundane attitude of armchair criticism of political actions and sociopolitical institutions alike. 

"We reached this resolve, in the best interest of the younger generations, who are unable to find role models amongst the multiplicity of political actors of Edo extraction.

"We made this resolve in the best interest of our teeming people who are unable to enjoy any reasonable recompense from their commonwealth that God Almighty has bestowed on our motherland. 

"Lamentation is incapable of lifting dead woods from doldrum. So, let it be on record, that we, Board of Trustees and Members of Edo Unity League Worldwide purchased these APC gubernatorial forms, at a whopping sum of #50,000,000.00 (Fifty Million Naira), for one of our members, as a seed of good governance investment.

"It will form a strong ground for us to interrogate Dr Ernest Afolabl Umakhihe if he wins the party ticket in the primaries, and he is eventually returned elected as Governor by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

"For us, we must demonstrate selflessness, and the capacity to be above board in finding a candidate with the right socioeconomic and political pedigree to lead our State from its present primordial prism of a Civil Service State, to a largely capitally productive State, by optimizing all home based demographic variables, for the good of the average Edo-boy and Edo-girl, as well as Edo men and Edo women. 

"We are convinced, we made a very good choice, and this democratic contribution by all our members, will altruistically count for the prolific transformation of Edo people from November 2024 by God's Grace",they noted.

The statement added that members of the group  are drawn from the open society of the state, cutting across all disciplines and different political affiliations. 



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