Edo Guber: Ex-perm Sec. Umakhile Promises Real Governance
By Kabir Akintayo
Former Permanent Secretary and a governorship aspirant under the flagship of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, Dr Ernest Umakhihe has promised to give Edo people a taste of real governance.
Umakhihe said this during a briefing with Journalists after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms at the party headquarters in Abuja.
The ex-permanent secretary also promised to reproduce his sterling civil service track records for Edo people if elected.
“My resolve to govern Edo state is borne out of the need and desire of my people to experience real governance that will touch every Edolight.
“I am one who has served at the top echelon of the federal civil service, I have served as a director in several ministry from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to National Sports Commission now Federal Ministry of Sport, to Ministry of Defense, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in foreign affairs in particular, I have had extensive diplomatic interaction because my oversight then covered over 116 diplomatic missions as at the time I was serving there” he said.
On his public sector record, he said: “When I was appointed permanent secretary in 2018 by President Muhammadu Buhari our then President, I have also served in several ministries.
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“I started my permanent secretary secondary career with the first posting to the Minister of Budget and National Planning and that was a bit where i had experience in real economic policy of the federal government.
“And in fact, the nine priorities of that administration, that is, Muhammad Buhari second tenure was domiciled that ministry.
“Also I was the secretary to the National Economic Council, the Council you’re aware that the Vice President is the Chairman and I was the secretary, there you have governors as members and after my sojourn in that ministry, I moved to the Office of Head of service of the Federation, where I was in charge of common services office, in fact in charge of central administration in that office.”
He promised to rescue Edo deploying agricultural revolution, security strategies among others.
“So I have torched the life of the ordinary person, I have had philanthropic organizations that are still existing and have had, and have torched the vulnerable groups and the less privilege, and has come to the rescue of several Edolight.
“So having retired from the federal civil service, I said now is the time for me to have a better opportunity that will concentrate solely on Edo state and my sluggan has always been if I could do this without making any electoral promise, now I want to make I want to make electoral promises which I must fulfilled.
“If I didn’t promise and I fulfilled, now I’m promising I think I would discharge more productively.
“I have looked at it and see that people need to leverage on what Edo state has, the abundance resources, so that we come mobilizes this resources, harness potentials and move those things forward as we speak, Edo state has 1.6 million hectares of arable land,” Umakhihe said.
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