Again, Kassim Afegbua, the Media Consultant to the Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council, has come out with one of his infantile, mischievous, and utterly baseless statements, this time claiming that the jobs of civil servants have been threatened.

In the hogwash which was a clear reflection of his warped thinking, Afegbua lowered the bar of commonsense, scribbling falsehoods, lies, and mistruths in his desperate attempt to cajole civil servants into voting his failed party and its deadbeat candidate.

This is however not surprising coming from Afegbua, as these sorts of lies can only make sense in the jaundiced minds of his likes, for whom anything goes, and because anything goes for them, they think it is the same for other people.

We want to unequivocally state that there is no such thing and the government never made any statements whatsoever threatening civil servants. The dimwitted scribbling is not only false but a figment of the jaundiced imagination of Kassim Afegbua, whose loyalty is to mammon and not the people.

The civil servants in Edo State are Nigeria’s happiest workers. They are liberated and well-empowered and have no reason to vote for Kassim Afegbua’s sinking party, the APC, whose government at the centre has not only superintended the liquidation of the Nigerian State but has inflicted untold hardship and suffering on the people.

In fact, the performance of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led government in the last eight years, particularly in the civil service, including paying the highest minimum wage in the country, improving of working environment, introduction of health insurance for all Edo workers, prompt payment of salaries and pensions, migration to Contributory Pension Scheme, the training, retraining and continuous training for the workers, no civil servant in Edo State needs to be coerced to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Kassim Afegbua is only expressing his frustration having come to the understanding that the vote of every civil servant in Edo State will go to the PDP and he can’t deal with it.

Afegbua can continue living in a fool’s paradise, lying to himself to satiate his gluttonous appetite while all Edo people who want the best for their State and have witnessed firsthand the bold and impactful transformation of their State in the last eight years under the leadership of Governor Obaseki come out on September 21 to secure the victory of the PDP and its candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, to build on the foundation that has been laid in the last eight years.

Crusoe Osagie

Special Adviser on Media Projects

September 18th, 2024