By DADA AYOKHAI
The Labour Party Chairmanship candidate in Edo Local Government elections, Mr Onaghise Osaretin Daniel-Ero has formally flag off his campaign .
The highly impressive flag off rally which was attended by the party lone member at the Edo state House of Assembly, Dr Richard Edosa Osaro,
supporters and leaders of the party across the 12 wards of Oredo.
An elated chairmanship hopeful, Daniel_ Ero formally received the party flag from the party chairman in oredo local government, comrade Enomayo Paul Adewunmi .
In his speech at the well attended ceremony, the chairmanship hopeful promised to reposition the local government if elected as chairman of the local government in the September 3 elections.
He said “We are going to come out with new ideas of doing things like the bureaucracy in getting local government certificate of origin and proper accountability which is the bane of various local government councils in Nigeria, we are also coming out with good technological innovations and we will train local government workers on its usage for efficiency and and improve service”
The party chairmanship candidate further told enthusiastic crowd about his programme on primary healthcare delivery which he said will top his agenda for the people of Oredo.
According to Daniel-Ero ,health has always been wealth but as human being, one is bound to fall sick and when such happens, it is important that one gets an accessable healthcare adding that when such is not available, it becomes a challenge and that he stands to correct that in Oredo.
“We are going to also talk about good primary healthcare in Oredo.
” If you watch very well, there is no good primary healthcare in Oredo that is functional though we have some on ground but there are some that are not functional but this time around, we are going to make sure the old ones on ground will be functional and we add to it so that the common person around, will not always run to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) or run to the Central Hospital.
” What Panadol can actually cure in your area, you start running to the Central Hospital no, we are going to make health a top priority”, Daniel-Ero said.
The chairman hopeful while decrying the archaic ways in which the local government has been run over the years, said the world has gone digital and that the council must not be left behind in the scheme of things, thus, the council under his tenure, will be technologically be driven for the purpose of transparency and accountability.
“You see, over the years in the council, there have been different chairmen coming in, but no innovation.
“It has always been the same thing repeatedly over the years but this time around, we are going to come up with new ideas of doing things.
“For example, the issue of you going to the council, you want to get your local government of origin, you have to go through the receipt process, they signed the receipt and give to you, we are going to push those things out for proper accountability.
“We will come up with hitech , we will come up with technology on how to do this for proper accountability so that we can get a better result from it.
“So these are the things we are going to put in place”, Daniel-Ero
