David Imuse, chairman of the Edo chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has described the government of Governor Godwin Obaseki as a “monumental failure”, noting that the party was working on strategies to reclaim the state in 2023.

“As far as Edo is concerned today, the government is a monumental failure,” Mr Imuse said while speaking on the performance of the governor.

The opposition leader said that the government had not done much in delivering the democracy dividends to the people.

“The government is a total failure. Walk on the street of Benin, ask an ordinary man, he will tell you the administration has taken Edo back to the 17th century,” he said.

Stating that Mr Obaseki’s administration has not allowed the legislature to function, the APC chairman maintained that “there is nothing working in Edo, you know it. I do not need to re-emphasise it”.

He told journalists on Monday in Benin that the party was hopeful of reclaiming what rightfully belonged to it in 2023.

“We hope that with this strategy that we are going to adopt, we will take the party to the next level. Do not forget Edo is an APC state. What we currently have is an aberration,” Mr Imuse said..

Edo was an APC state before losing to PDP, following a personal rift between former governor, Adams Oshiomole, and his anointed successor, Mr Obaseki, in the build-up to the 2020 governorship election.

(NAN)