Tinubu commissions 60-bed hospital in Edo, hails Oshiomhole

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.”