In what can only be described as disgraceful and insensitive, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State – led by the ever-compliant Monday Okpebholo – has launched an early and insensitive full-scale campaign for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027. This is not a rumour – it is a visible, well-funded reality.   While Nigerians groan under the weight of economic ruin, insecurity, and despair, the Edo APC is busy decorating the streets with billboards and banners celebrating the very man whose administration has dragged the country into one of its darkest eras.

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From Benin City to Ekpoma, and from Auchi to Uromi, massive billboards glorifying Tinubu have popped up like a sick jokes – shouting promises of continuity, hope, and prosperity.   Yet, the streets beneath these billboards tell a different story: rising unemployment, a crumbling healthcare system, skyrocketing food prices, and families torn apart by avoidable violence.     Let’s be clear: Tinubu’s presidency has brought nothing short of a calamity. His removal of fuel subsidies without any cushioning measures plunged millions into poverty overnight. The naira has crashed to record lows, inflation is eating away at salaries, and insecurity continues to spread like wildfire.   But apparently, to Monday Okpebholo and his band of sycophants in Edo APC, these are not crises – they are campaign materials. Their obsession with Tinubu’s re-election is so blinding that they’ve practically declared Edo a Tinubu campaign ground, three years ahead of the elections.   This move is not just insensitive – it is dangerous. It shows a party that is completely detached from the pain of its people.   Rather than advocate for policies to relieve suffering or push the federal government to take urgent action, they’ve decided that the most important mission is political loyalty to Abuja. Even if that means dancing on the graves of those killed by bandits and killer Fulani herdsmen/hunters, etc many of whom still roam free.  

Killer Herdsmen Attack

Edo North, Edo Central, and even parts of Edo South have witnessed a disturbing rise in attacks by suspected herdsmen. Farmers are being chased off their lands, women assaulted, communities displaced, and yet – no outrage from Monday Okpebholo. No press conferences, no petitions, no town hall meetings.   Why? Because the attackers are allegedly from a region that the APC powerbrokers would prefer not to antagonize.  

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This cowardly silence is not just betrayal – it is treason against the people of Edo State. A government that prioritizes political favours over the lives of its citizens has lost all moral authority to lead.   Monday Okpebholo’s actions show a man more interested in impressing the APC hierarchy than protecting his people. Rather than stand as a voice of reason or resistance in the face of failed leadership, he has chosen to be a pawn, dancing to the beat of Tinubu’s drum – even if that drum echoes with the cries of the hungry, the homeless, and the dead.   It is a spectacular failure of leadership that instead of rallying for federal intervention to fix insecurity, fix inflation, or rescue the naira, the Edo APC is putting up glossy billboards like we live in paradise.   Edo Deserves Better. The people of Edo are not fools. We see the deceit. We feel the hunger. We bury our dead. And we watch, with rising anger, as those elected to represent us chase after power for power’s sake.   To campaign for Tinubu in 2027 while Edo bleeds is not just premature – it is obscenely insensitive. It is a declaration that the Edo APC values Abuja’s approval more than Edo’s survival. It is time to call it what it is: a disgraceful,  shameless and insensitive betrayal.   Enough is enough. Edo deserves leadership, not lackeys.

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