Edo 2016: Oshiomhole Constituency ranges threatening To Support Opposition Party

Edo 2016: Oshiomhole Constituency ranges threatening To Support Opposition Party 

By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City

Tailors in Edo State have threatened to throw their weight behind  the candidate of the opposition party due to the inability of the Edo State Government, led by Comrade Adams Oshiomole to redeem all his promises made to the association.

Comrade Bayo Oladepopo, State Secretary, Tailors and Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria, Edo State Chapter, made the declaration on the occasion of Tailors Day Celebration, held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Indoor Sports Complex, Benin City, yesterday.

Comrade Bayo Oladepopo who read the speech prepared by Comrade Isaiah Onaiwu Okungbowa, State President, Tailors and Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria, Edo State Chapter ; also State Chairman, National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, Edo State Chapter, said on his own that the association with their numerical strength can decide to switch their allegiance to the opposition party due to the inability of the Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomole to redeem his promises to the association having meant only two out of the promises.

"Comrade sir, as you know  the union is non-partisan, and because you are from our constituency, and to reinstate it, all the members are ready and are with their voters cards  to do the same for your party if you can only redeem your pledges and failing to redeem it, fellow comrade what will happen? Are will not going to relocate?

According to the address of the State President, Comrade Isaiah Onaiwu, said 

the state governor, Adams Oshiomole on the 15 of March, 2011, during their first Tailors Day, promised to donate a Bus, N75 million loan with 6% interest rate, 100 sewing machines and N2m  to the union but he has only redeemed the pledge of the N2m and the hundred sewing machines while others are yet to be meant.

Defending the personality of the governor of the state,  the National  President, National Union of Textile   and Garment and Tailoring  Workers  of Nigeria,  Comrade John Adaji said the Comrade Governor that he knows is a man that would always keeps his words noting that having meant two out of four of their needs, he should be commended.

Comrade Adaji said at times, the government would want to take care of the needs of those outside his constituency having come from the tailoring background adding that they should understand such.

He urged the association not to relent in their support for the government but should always support him and his team to succeed adding that they must also support whosoever the comrade governor is bringing to succeed him.

On the part of the Hon. Commissioner of Special Duty and Establisment, Comrade Didi Adodo who represented the Comrade Governor of the state, Adams Oshiomole, he said the governor is aware of the promises he made and that he is conscious of fulfilling them and that, which he could not accomplish in his tenure, his successors would take off from where he has stopped stressing that, that is the reason the union must support continuity of the All Progressives Congress led government by voting qMr. Obaseki Godwin for governor and Hon. Philip Shaibu as his deputy.

Governor Adams Oshiomole while reacting to the issue of multiple taxation, he alleged that such could be the handiwork of the opposition who have allegedly recruited unknown persons to go about collecting taxes on behalf of the state government with the aim of painting the government in bad light. He said the association though cannot be exonerated from tax, stressed that the only place they could pay their taxes, is the Board of Internal Revenue of the state.