Governor Monday Okpebholo-led administration in Edo state, has scheduled a colloquium as part of activities to mark its one-year anniversary.
The colloquium, which is scheduled for November 12, 2025 is geared to interrogate issues and perspectives of what the administration has encountered thus far.
The state commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prince Kassim Afegbua, disclosed this to journalists in Benin City on Monday.
Afegbua explained, “Besides commissioning projects, dignitaries from within and outside the State are expected to speak to us , affording us the opportunity to reconstruct and recollect all our interventions in charting a new course in the process of rebuilding a new Edo.”
Afegbua said Governor Okpebholo is resolute in his determination to ensure that he impacts positively on Edo people despite “inheriting almost N600 billion debts from the immediate past administration.”
He stated that the administration will also commission projects in the areas of healthcare, education, road reconstruction, and agriculture across the three Senatorial Districts.
According to the Commissioner, “We are hoping to start going around the State to commission specific projects. And we intend to carry you people (journalists) along because it’s essentially a media event.
”It is a media event to the extent that we will crave your audience to participate for you to go and see practical governance.
”The projects you can see visibly, and not projects that are captured in MOU- for which we can’t find their location, like it was in the previous administration.
”We are happy that across the entire State, we have about 60 to 63 schools receiving attention as part of the first phase intervention.
”More than half of that have been completed, part of which we will be commissioning,” Afegbua added.
