………………says Edo people are my friends
By Ehi Ekhator
One of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidates in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has replied the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole on the call to provide his friends.
On Tuesday, the governor had asked the PDP governorship candidate to provide his friends, who he said among whom are looters.
The governor boasted that his friendship with Dangote, the richest man in Africa, has yielded $1bn investment to the state.
Oshiomhole said: “I’m proud to associate myself with Dangote, and I’m proud to say my friendship with Dangote has yielded a $1 billion investment in the state in the form of a brand new Okpella Cement factory which will offer close to 50,000 direct and indirect jobs to people of the state.”
Speaking with NAIJA CENTER NEWS on Wednesday, Pastor Ize-Iyamu said he won’t compare his friends, but stressed that Edo people are his friends and he is very concerned about them.
He said ” I am sure by now everyone knows how childish they can be. I am not going to start comparing those who are my friends and who are not. What is important is that Edo people are my friends and I am concerned about them.
“The statement they said I made was that for a long time, we have seen the governor going around with Dangote to different African countries to commission different factories and many of us wondered that he could not even appeal to him to come and establish it here.
“Eventually we have heard that the man is going to establish one, and as you know Oshiomhole’s tenure is coming to an end in a matter of months, and i said this is a kind of people i would have thought
“He started talking about Dangote being his friend and all that and he forgot that we were the one who support him in 2007. Ask whether Dangote was his friend in 2007 and how much he contributed to his campaign.
“I don’t see the big deal as the governor is now beginning to know that Dangote is his friend.
“What matters is the policy and vision you have. This is a governor who when we quarrelled with him that he had not been able to established industry and he said he never promised industry.
He has now realized that industrialization is very important. Dangote is not the only person who is putting a cement factory in Okpilla, BUA group is already there.
It is good that Dangote is interested in our state, but a governor who his tenure will end in few months now begin to realize the importance of industrlization.”
How much did Dangote contribute to your campaign? - Ize-Iyamu replies Oshiomhole
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