Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, yesterday, commended President Bola Tinubu for the bold decisions in removing fuel subsidy and unification of the naira exchange rates.
Speaking with journalists at an interactive session in Benin City, capital of the state,Aziegbemi, an economist, described the decisions as the best way to go, adding that, “those policies will give the country in excess of N2 trillion.”
The Chairman who stated this while commenting on the state of the nation, however said people were worried about the nature of palliatives that the government would put in place to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians, arising from the fuel subsidy removal.
Besides, Aziegbemi expressed concern that there were allegedly too many crooks around Tinubu, urging him to be wary of such persons and try as much as possible to keep “the strong men” at the back seat of governance in order not to create a bad image for his administration.
On party politics in Nigeria, he said it was reprehensible for those the PDP had made to start throwing mud at the party because they did not get what they wanted.
Aziegbemi who was apparently referring to some bigwigs who recently defected from the PDP in Edo, said character mattered in politics and warned that, “this tyranny of the vocal minority has to stop.”
He said the G34 that formed the PDP, Adamu Ciroma, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Chief Tony Anenih and others, would be turning in their graves seeing what such persons were doing, assuring “this party will not die.”
The Edo PDP boss, therefore, called on governorship aspirants on the platform of the PDP to slow down their consultations because of the precarious situation of the party and the forthcoming Local Government Council elections in the state, just as he urged party leaders not to align with any aspirant at the moment.
Aziegbemi while commenting on ‘Obaseki Phenomenon’, said governor Godwin Obaseki was the most misunderstood governor in the country who had achieved the most, adding that the governor’s philosophy was about hard work, due process, amongst others.
He listed the governor’s legacy projects to include 55 megawatts Ossiomo Power Station, the two Modular Refineries in the state, Edo Tech. Park, which he said would train 15,000 Software Engineers in the next few years, Edo BEST Programme, and other laudable projects.
