'I want to apologise to those I harassed' - Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole reveled he tried to make the state perfect but realised it could not be done, as he apologies to people he stepped on
Speaking during his last State Executive Council session as Governor
of the state, Oshiomhole explained that those he harassed was due to his
drive for perfection, stressing that the “harder I tried to make things
perfect, the more I realised that it can’t be.”
According to Oshiomhole, “Let me thank each and every one of you for
what God has used you to do for our people, for our great state. Let me
say publicly that I do believe the evidence is there, that members of
this state executive council are the least paid and work the hardest
compared to any other state that I know of.
“I also know that we have had to work long hours. I recall a meeting
we had, starting at 9.00am, no adjournment and staying all the way to
7.00 am the following day. No break, no adjournment.
“We all agreed that we would do that and we would not adjourn until
we had addressed the issue of the viability of this state so that we can
deliver on our promises.
“I want to thank all of you. May God bless you; may God reward you.
And we must have a sense of collective ownership of everything that
happened while we were here. I want to apologise to those I harassed,
and there is hardly anyone I didn’t, but it can be both ways.
“I wanted everything to be perfect. The harder I strived towards
perfection, the more I realise that it can’t be, and I am still
striving. I was always afraid to fail; it has been in nature. I didn’t
design it. Thank you for tolerating a lot of that and for appreciating
that nothing was personal.
“I am proud of each and every one of you, and as Odubu said, let’s
see ourselves as members of a particular class, like you have members of
an alumni association, you have a particular class. May God preserve
this class, and may the membership of this class continue to advance.”
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