All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo State chapter, yesterday urged the Federal Government to pay the gratuity of the husband of an Edo State widow, Mrs. Joy Ifijeh.
The woman, whose late husband was a policeman, was upbraided by Governor Adams Oshiomhole for displaying her goods on the road penultimate week in Benin City.
Addressing reporters yesterday at the party’s secretariat in Benin, the APC Interim Publicity Secretary in the state, Comrade Godwin Erhahon, said: “The truth is that Mrs. Ifijeh would not have resorted to street trading if the past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government had built markets for traders.”
He said the failure of the PDP to build markets compounded her predicament, adding that the PDP shylocks placed the few shops at markets beyond the reach of average Nigerians like the widow.
“We are surprised that PDP jesters are staging a drama over the episode of Mrs. Ifijeh, who was arrested with other street traders at a forbidden spot by the governor in the heart of Benin City,” Erhahon said.
He said the crime rate, especially kidnapping, has dropped since Governor Oshiomhole signed into Law, the anti- kidnapping Bill. He described PDP’s criticism on unemployment rate in the state as biased.
Source: The Nation
