Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, has commissioned a 60-bed specialist hospital, complete with
state-of-the-art equipment, three-bedroom doctors’ quarters and 2-bedroom
nurses’ quarters, built by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole government in
Ewohinmi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State.
Commissioning the hospital project
which was first conceptualized but abandoned over 25 years ago, Tinubu, who is
also a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said with the
commissioning of the hospital and other projects in the state, Governor Oshiomhole
had introduced infrastructure development revolution to the state.
Tinubu said it was regrettable that
the 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the federal level had
been a colossal waste.
He said: “What you have in Edo State
is common sense development revolution. Good security, employment, potable
water supply, agriculture, good road infrastructure, vocational job to train
and develop your mind and become independent in life. That is common sense
development revolution.
“The only way you can get it at the
federal level is to have the voter’s card and vote out the PDP. The 16 years of
the PDP did not produce anything. They were here and they did not do roads to
reach your communities and they could not give you boreholes.
“We have spent six years now and six
years of our arrival with our broom, we have been sweeping the dirt away. We
say change from deceit; change from lies; change from excuses. Today, the
country is in darkness because of the deception of the PDP. When you pay a
policeman, pittance how do you expect him not to take bribe?
“We have built new hospitals and
schools in six years. If you want continuity of this development, go and
collect your voter’s card and vote for APC. You want water to flow; you want
good roads; you want potable water supply, then vote for APC.
“The reward for hard work is more
work. So, as the APC is doing well in Edo State, you expect more work. You must
vote for more work and more facilities. Democracy is not a spectator’s game. If
you have no card, go and collect one and vote against the PDP. There can be no
running water, if you don’t vote for APC. The PDP has failed and they will continue
to fail.
“Glory be to God we now have a
government that build hospitals that would save lives; emergency sections that
would ensure that accident victims are attended to; that premature babies would
be taken care of. Thank you Adams, thank you for leading a government that
works,” he said.
In his remarks, Governor Oshiomhole
said the hospital project was one of the dreams of his administration to extend
development to the rural communities.
He said: “For us in Edo State, the
fact of being rural does not mean the people are inferior. Rural life is a
function of location and not of quality and consistent with the commitment of
our party to have an all-inclusive development, the one that seeks to make
people feel the impact of governance regardless of location, what you have
seen is a practical statement that this is possible beyond rhetoric.
“When I visited here in 2009, the
previous government had awarded it. In fact, governments after governments had
awarded it and they were just using it to siphon money in the name of the
people of Ewohimi and the blocks they were using were so bad. We had to demolish
that foundation and build a completely new hospital.
“His royal highness informed me that
this project has been on for over 25 years and somehow they have given up. I am
happy that God has used us to translate this to reality.
“We have built road connecting
Ewohimi to other major towns in Esan and shortly we shall be commissioning
them.”
Tinubu commissions 60-bed hospital in Edo, hails Oshiomhole
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