How Okpebholo’s SHINE agenda is addressing Edo’s 35-year reckoning (1)

In 1991 General Ibrahim Babangida regime, carved Edo State out of the old Bendel state and that was beginning its peculiar journey — neither entirely in the southwest’s sophisticated political machinery, nor quite aligned with the midwestern traditions that once defined the region. Thirty-five years later, has it truly progressed?

To understand the present, one must reckon with the past. Edo…