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The recent re-election, via the National Assembly elections of February 23, 2019, of Senator Matthew Aisagbonriodion Urhoghide, for a second term as Senator representing the good people of Edo South senatorial district, has been described as “a well-deserved development.”
In a chat with The Navigator, last week, a community leader in the state, Pa Napoleon Edobor, maintained that “long before the election, Urhoghide’s case had been signed, sealed and delivered. Why do I say so? This is because he truly has worked for the people of Edo south. Before the election leaders of communities across the south senatorial district have been chorusing that Edo south had never had it so good, in terms of the performance of their mandate bearer at the Senate. Some of them even went ahead to label him an Executive Senator because of the level, appropriateness and spread of his facilitated projects and programmes. So, in more ways than one, Urhoghide’s victory was assured.”
While paying huge tribute to the Senator, and particularly saluting Edo south indigenes and residents who stood solidly behind him, especially before and during the elections, Pa Edobor challenged Senator Urhoghide not to look behind, “but to keep moving ahead and looking for more ways of assisting the people. Everyone can now attest to the fact that if you deliver as an elected representative, there is always a day of reckoning, a payback time. I think our politicians have begun to notice and appreciate that growth in our electorate.”
It would be recalled that Senator Urhoghide came into the race for a second term mandate with an intimidating scorecard of achievements in terms of positive representation on the floor of the Red Chambers where he dutifully chairs the Senate’s Public Accounts Committee, with personally proposed bills standing at nine (9) and twenty-three (23) motions moved in three and a half years, including a proposed bill for the establishment of the Federal University of Education at Abudu Orhionmwon local government area, Senator Urhoghide has equally raised twenty-two (22) petitions on the floor of the Senate on behalf of his constituents and Nigerians generally. He equally, in his official capacity performed thirty-six (36) oversight functions on various government agencies, establishments and parastatals.
Also within a space of three and a half years, Senator Urhoghide attracted physical infrastructures to several communities in Edo South senatorial districts. These physical, verifiable infrastructures which are already in use by the benefitting communities include six (6) bridges and culverts across rivers and streams, twenty-five (25) classroom blocks, with staff rooms and conveniences, five (5) multi-purpose halls, forty-two (42) motorized and solar-powered boreholes, six (6) twenty-four market stalls structures, one (1) Maternity/Health Centre, two (2) Skills Acquisition Centres, Six (6) Roads construction, fifteen (15) streets got Solar-powered Street-lighting systems, and eleven (11) electricity transformers.
Senator Urhoghide, on human capital development under education, has given scholarship awards to two-hundred and sixty-three (263) beneficiaries in public secondary and tertiary institutions; he has also facilitated training programmes for three thousand seven-hundred and fifty-three (3,753) youths. He has also given out non-refundable financial assistance to petty traders and distribution of income earning tools, equipment and machines to eighty (80) beneficiaries; till date three hundred and eighteen (318) persons have benefited from the Senator’s provision of business start-ups. He has equally procured employment for eighty-six (86) graduate indigenes with federal agencies, establishments and parastatals.
With this verifiable and intimidating pedigree, coupled with his proven trustworthiness, which delightfully earned him The Promise Keeper, Senator Urhoghide could have beaten anyone to the coveted senatorial seat in the February 23, 2019 national assembly elections. He said it times without number, during the campaigns that he was not contesting with anyone; rather he insisted he was contesting against the underdevelopment in the Edo South district.
As he begins the expression of the Second Mandate from May 29, 2019, Edo South indigenes are in for more exciting times. As it is often said in the United States of America, when more goodies are coming your way, you aint seen nothing yet!
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