Shettima, Akpabio, Yari, Uzodimma rally Edo voters for Tinubu’s second term

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Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Abdul’aziz Yari, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Abdul’aziz Yari, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, and Hope Uzodimma, Imo State governor and chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), on Thursday led the party’s campaign drive in Edo State, rallying voters behind President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a second term in the January 16, 2027 presidential election.

The APC leaders made the call at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Benin City, where Governor Monday Okpebholo also declared his readiness to mobilise massive votes for Tinubu, assuring the Vice President that Edo State was prepared to deliver victory for the President.

Shettima, who highlighted the federal government’s infrastructure, energy, healthcare and social interventions in the state, said the administration has not abandoned its commitment to addressing Edo’s development needs.

“Some work has been completed, some is underway. Other commitments remain before us,” he said,. Shettima urged residents to judge the administration by the impact of its policies and projects.

He listed the ongoing dualisation of roads linking Ekoma, Auchi and Okene, emergency repairs on the Benin-Asaba and other highways, as well as the completion of the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben gas pipelin.

According to him, new transmission lines capable of adding 600 megawatts to the national grid, the commissioning of the Amopi substation and solar mini-grids, and proposed investments in refining were part of efforts to revive industrial activities in the state.

The Vice President also cited interventions at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, including radiotherapy and dialysis services, alongside support for 158 public health facilities, farmers, entrepreneurs and vulnerable communities.

He said the return of Benin artefacts was also progressing, noting that Cambridge and Sweden had transferred ownership of some Benin treasures to Nigeria.

Yari, in his…

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