Okpebholo’s eight-month delay in forming full cabinet draws backlash
On July 12, 2025, exactly eight months after Monday Okpebholo was sworn in as the Governor of Edo State, he appointed only a few commissioners, a situation many state residents have described as shocking and unfortunate.
He took the oath of office on November 12, 2024.
Analysts are worried that instead of the governor kicking off running and championing a different course of governance, he chose to follow the footsteps of his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, as well as the immediate past president of the country, late Muhammad Buhari, who it took almost a year to constitute their respective cabinets.
During the second term of Obaseki, the All Progressives Congress, in loud voices criticized him for the delay in the appointment of commissioners.
From three months of his administration to six and nine months, the party was critical of the administration.
One would have expected that, based on the party’s critics, the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led government, on assumption of office, would do things differently.
Enahoro Iyemefokhai, writes that stakeholders in the Edo politics and government have come out to express their displeasure with the development.
SOCIETY WATCH reports that Senator Monday Okpebholo was sworn in after he was declared the winner of the September 21, 2024, Governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
INEC declared Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, the winner of the election with 291,667 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Asue Ighodalo of PDP, who polled 247,274 votes.
