Prince Kassim Afegbua, a former spokesman of ex-military President, Ibrahim Babangida, has joined the race for next year’s gubernatorial election in Edo State.
Afegbua who is also a former Commissioner for Information in the administration of the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, announced his intention on Thursday evening, at the secretariat of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council.
He disclosed that infrastructural decay and leadership deficiency, amongst others, as presently experienced in the state, made him join the race to correct such.
According to him, the “needless squabbles and altercations among the leaders of the ruling party in our state, [Edo people are] disoriented by the politics of pretence and high-handedness,” which he said should not be.
Afegbua who want to run on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), assured that he would “seamlessly reposition the state in sync with national reckoning, and fully explore the opportunities beckoning to us.”
He added: “We cannot afford to be in opposition when we have a federal government that is poised to renew our hope and take us to a place of prosperity, economic strength, stability, and pride.
