By Emmanuel Igho Iriogbe.
The All Progressives Congress,APC, National Woman Leader, Dr. Mary Alile-Idele has reiterated why the ruling party at the center must capture Edo state in the forthcoming gubernatorial election slated to hold sometime in September, 2024.
This according to her is due to the bad governance visited on the state by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last eight years of being at the helm of affairs.
She stated this in Abuja at a meeting with political editors and correspondents from Edo state under the aegis of Edo Journalists in Abuja when the group paid her a courtesy visit in her office at the party secretariat.
According to her; “Edo state has suffered a high level of political and infrastructural setbacks which should be halted without delay. We don’t want another four years of disasters under PDP”
On her vision for the party, Dr Alile-Idele said,she had already floated some programmes including an empowerment initiative for women, taking the message of President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda across the country, attracting young women into politics and mobilizing for the APC across the country.
“In Edo state, if you have been there lately, it is a pathetic situation, there is no better words to describe it.
“The roads are bad, education terrible and other infrastructural decays. It is a terrible situation and some people are still out there shouting that Edo is the best. “I will say in 2024 we in APC, can do better”
Speaking on best ways the APC intend to go about correcting the anomalies, she said that she was set to invigorate her immediate constituency, women, because according to her ‘we all know when it comes to politics, women are in the fore front, in fact, research have shown that women are the highest number of voters in this country, but that they are however relegated to the background after electoral victory by the male-dominated parties. That, she said has to change.
“What I have done in Edo state in this regard in the last couple of weeks is by appointing Special Advisers in the 18 local government areas in the state to embark on serious sensitization and mobilization of women. These are people that know the corners of their local government areas.