Say No to smear campaign.

I want to on behalf of my family and political associates sympathize with the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Dr. Pius Egberamwan Odudu over the death of his mother. May Her Soul Rest in peace. Amen.

Allow me also to use this medium to appeal to him as someone who will be spending sixteen (16) straight years as an elected representative of the people, to desist from the gutter campaign of lying to his supporters that Engr.Chirs Ogiemwonyi took the money the Federal Government earmarked for the Benin to Abraka Road. Such low-life lies coming from a highly placed person in our society and party is very disappointing.

The Benin Abraka road was awarded to RCC by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs under the ministerial Leadership of Elder. Godswill Orubebe while Engr. Ogiemwonyi was a junior Minister of State for works.When Elder Orubebe was to come to Benin City to flag off the road construction he invited his fellow Minister Engr. Ogiemwonyi. So how does that make Engr Ogiemwonyi the contractor? How did Dr. Odubu draw his drawing the conclusion that Engr. Ogiemwonyi is in pocesssion of the contract money? Is it because Engr Ogiemwonyi accompanied Elder. Orubebe to the flagging off of the project in his state that Odubu is misinterpreting?

Dr. Odubu is a Lawyer and should know better that such below-the-belt smear campaign of lies cannot sway the people of Edo State.

What the people will be examining will be your past records of service in the 16 years you represented the people. According to a very popular advert in the last senate election, they will be asking, Na only you? They are already asking if you are the only one and the most qualified person from Orhionmwon?

As we move on, there are a few things that you will need to clarify. The first is that the people are angry with you because they alleged that you appointed your wife, the beautiful Deaconess, to serve you as your Legislative aid in the eight years you were in the House of Reps, whereas those that laboured to elect you into office were walloping in unemployment & penury.

Even as his Deputy Governor, they alleged that the Comrade Governor appointed you as the chairman to the committee that appointed Supervisory Councillors in all the seven 7 Edo South Local government Councils. That was an apple opportunity for you to engage those who laboured to elect you severally over the years, but you ended up filling those positions with your brothers and sisters, I mean those born of your Father and mother.

That is how self-centred your politics became. In politics we call it chop alone syndrome. If I may ask you, His Excellency, on whose vote do you intend to win elections in Edo State? is it that of your siblings alone abi? In this your 16 years in government, i challenge you to name anyone outside your family that you have empowered.

in 1999, at the start of this present democratic dispensation, Dr. Odubu was first elected to the House of Representatives. His first constituency project was an industrial borehole for his community Uromhehe. He invited Chief Lucky Igbinedion, the then governor of Edo State to commission the borehole. Dr Odubu knowing fully well that the borehole was not sunk, decided to use two water tankers to ferry water from Benin City and pumped the water up onto the industrial tank above. So when Chief Lucky Igbinedion and his crew got there, he opened the taps and voila Dr. Odubu magical borehole was commissioned.

I see that you have already read the sign on the wall that your 16 years of service is all our people can take from you. I like the idea that you have started planning for your retirement. You have built several filling stations and develop commercial properties all over the place.This is a good step in the right direction. However, as a lawyer, you should know that your filling stations along Upper Sokponba Road are all in violation of the Benin City building plan. You located them in a densely populated areas thereby bringing real threat to the life of the people in the area. But the question is, how can you a law maker and a keeper of the law be in violation of the law?
Dr. Odubu lets bring our campaigns to the higher grounds and not smear others. it is a democratic contest where the will of the people will always prevail. The polity is NOT anyone's' inheritance.