Former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the Oshiomhole’s administration Chief Lucky James has described the returning of Senator Francis Alimikhena to the Senate as a good Omen for the people of Edo State and Edo North in Particular. Saying he is the only lawmaker that has been able to articulate issues that have bedeviled the development of Edo North in the past years.
In a statement issued today, He said Senator Francis Alimikhena has provided a holistic developmental approach to tackling development in all communities across Edo North. He that is good will infallibly become better. Senator Francis Alimikhena’s enviable performance in the Senate is visible to the blind and audible enough for the deaf. He called on the People of Edo North to ignore all lies and blackmailing against the Senator by taking their destiny into their hands and ensuring the return of Senator Francis Alimikhena to the Senate in 2023.
Chief Lucky James who was the former Lucky Government Chairman in Etsako West Local Government, Maintain that the objective of Senator Alimikhena in returning to the Senate is to continue to achieve the happiness, economic enhancement, and independence of the poorest, the weakest, the most vulnerable and the disadvantaged in the society. He has cushioned the effect of Austerity measures in Edo North through his massive skill acquisition program, constant provision of empowerment gargets, and access to means of production.
He said Senator Francis Alimikhena has penetrated the grassroots by meeting the financial obligations of the downtrodden because they are in the majority. Alimikhena has taken it as a personal responsibility in ensuring that the poor in our midst have access to means of production, turn them into entrepreneurs in their own right, employers of labour, and masters of their economic destiny, with the ability to turn the economic fortune of Edo North Senatorial district for the better.
The APC Chieftains said, Senator Francis Alimikhena took over as Edo North Senator at a time of huge challenges with crushing Austerity measures with dwindling economic fortunes of the people with high-level insecurity, which made him embarked on revolving loans for traders and establishing entrepreneurs, and building entrepreneurial spirit among the people and massive skill acquisitions. The engagement of idle hands in Edo North by Senator Francis Alimikhena has massively reduced the high level of Okada snatching and many other crimes in the environment. Those who hold a contrary opinion about the achievements of Senator Francis Alimikhena are doing so out of ignorance of what is happening in Edo North. The incumbent Edo North Senator is a legend in terms of performance.
The former commissioner assures that all efforts to remove the Senator from returning to the Senate will be resisted by the masses who have benefited massively as God will always answer the cry of the helpless. All Cruelty springs from weakness. The ongoing cruelty against the incumbent Senator is sure to fail.
