Edo 2024: Ex-Minister Ononolemen says It’s Edo Central turn to Produce next Governor
….Declares intention to succeed Gov Obaseki.
With the administration of present administration led by Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, Former Minister of Works and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mike Ononolemen has finally broke silence and had given a direction on a particular zone to produce the next governor in the State.
Ononolemen in a recent interview with Folalumi Alaran, spoke extensively on upcoming 2024 governorship election in Edo State.
According to him, for equity and fairness, Edo North senatorial district should be supported to emerged as next Governor, even as he said is more favoured to produce the next governor.
Why are you in the race to succeed Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki in next year’s election?
It is no longer news that I am interested in the gubernatorial election in Edo State come the next season. Someone asked me when I took the decision. The truth is that in the past four gubernatorial contests in Edo State, I’ve always been interested. For about three times, I was prevailed upon by the leadership to let it go to other persons. Sometimes, we just accept but I believe this is the right time. You can see we are all about the same age bracket. So, we don’t have any limitation.
For me, it is my intention and it’s something I have thought about for the past 15 years. That is about four cycles of election. I believe this is the best time in a sense for this project to crystallize because whether you like it or not, we have come of age.
Having said that, my driving force for this project is the fact that governance in Nigeria have not really been stellar because we’re going from frying pan to the fire.
By now, one would have expected that in terms of governance, Nigeria should have by now been much better that what it is.
What are you bringing on board that you see as an advantage over other aspirants?
As somebody who has been in government, who knows the purpose of government, I believe that with my experience in government that I have when I served either as Executive Director of the Petroleum Trust Fund or under President Olusegun Obasanjo, I see I’m more competent to become the next Governor of Edo State.
