As the 2023 general election gathers momentum, a female favorite aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Edo State House of Assembly election, Barr. Mrs. Faith Obasuyu, has advocated rural transformation for Orhionmwon Constituency.
Faith Obasuyi stated this in Benin City over the weekend while speaking with The9JaTrend on her plans for Orhionmwon constituency if given the ticket of APC and emerged victorious in the Edo House of Assembly election.
She said, “My vision is to have my constituents as the biggest champions of socio-political, economic, infrastructural and technological development and policies in Nigeria.
“Over time, the issues that affected us as people have not fully be addressed, and a women have never attained that position since the inception of Orhionmwon South, so as a woman, I have that the interest, I am a trained lawyer, a mother and I am also a wife and I believe I can do it, I can emanate the necessary change to bring development to my community and my constituency, I can do it.
“I have being in politics since my student days as a student union leader from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma to NANS and since then, I have been in politics, is over 15 years now.
“I promise to give every Orhionmwon indigene a voice and strengthen the socio – economy of all communities in Orhionmwon Local Government Area through quality representation.”
According to her, “I will work towards making sure community development issues, such as electricity, water supply, cottage industries, agriculture, transportation, investment into local and indigenous products and hospitality will be my major task for my constituency.
“Agricultural Development Initiative with a proposed initiatives to make agriculture lucrative and attractive to our youths so as to retain jobs in the rural areas thereby improving our domestic farmers markets and also help mitigate the rising levels rural urban migration from our local communities.
“In addition, I shall also look at possible ways to request assistance (material and human resources) from accomplished sons and daughters of Orhionmwon communities in local and diaspora to fund agricultural programs and make donations of modern agricultural tools in their respective communities to aid agricultural growth.
“I shall work hard to reduce the recent large numbers of out of school children in our communities through the establishment of educational intervention programmes. I shall also provide an environment whereby technical skills are not ignored by this, we shall work on expanding the scope of the skill acquisition centres in Orhionmwon Local Government.
“Community security system will not be left out, and l will ensure a proper emergency services hotline and contact centre to coordinate responses.”
Barr. Mrs. Faith Obasuyu hail from Urhonigbe Village in Orhionmwon local government area of Edo State. She did her diploma in law at the prestigious University of Benin, and later went to Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma where she read law from 100 level to 500 level, and then went to Enugu Law School, Agbani where she was called to the Nigeria Bar and thereafter joined the National Circular Politic from her constituency Orhionmwon. Thereafter she was made Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Edo State Governor on Legal Matters.