Edo People Can’t Afford DSTV, Says APC Chairman

Edo People Can’t Afford DSTV, Says APC Chairman

The Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Jarret Tenebe, has said the people of Edo cannot afford Digital Satellite Television.

Jarret Tenebe said not up to 100 Edo citizens can afford DSTV to be able to watch the party’s candidate Monday Okpebholo, on cable TV.

The APC chairman stated this on Thursday while speaking to Arise TV, monitored by our reporter. He maintained that Okpebholo has been going to the citizens of Edo from house to house to speak with them.

He argued that coming to Lagos to grant an interview to TV would be a waste of money because the real voters in the state cannot subscribe to DSTV.

He stated that even as the APC chairman, Obaseki’s government also affected him as he could not subscribe his DSTV decoder to watch television programmes. He said Governor Godwin Obaseki has made the people of Edo poor that they cannot buy data.

“Edo people cannot afford DSTV. We don’t have 100 persons in Edo that can access the DSTV because they cannot buy data. Godwin Obaseki has made Edo people too poor.

“Even me, I cannot watch DSTV because I don’t have money to subscribe DSTV,” he said.

When confronted with data from Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) that over one million Edo residents are connected to the internet and access the internet, Tenebe, retracted, “They have DSTV, they have GOTV but they cannot subscribe. People that are watching DSTV are the people living in Lagos and Ikoyi. If people are telling you I am embarrassing Edo people, those are the people living in Lagos and Ikoyi.

“He (Okpebholo) cannot pay air ticket to come to Lagos becuase Edo people cannot subscribe. they don’t have money. Obseki has made Edo people poor. There has been no development in Edo in the last eight years of Obaseki’s administration.”

Tenebe added that the increase in internally generated revenue by Obaseki has not impacted on the citizens.