"TAKING OBASEKI TO COURT IS A WASTE OF TIME" - EDO PDP

A political pressure group within the Edo state
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), known as The
Restoration Group on Monday, September 3
described the just concluded governorship
election in Edo as credible, free and fair.
The group also called for the resignation of the
entire executive members of the PDP in Edo
state led by Chief Dan Orbih, saying the party
was not prepared for the just concluded Edo
election.
According to Leadership, Mr Uyi Igbinigie the
leader of the group who is also the leader of the
PDP in Oredo local government area while
speaking to journalists in Benin, said that
contrary to the position of the party leadership
that the election was rigged by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), that “the
election was one of the best conducted so far by
INEC and it was free, fair and credible.
He also said: “The problem was that before the
election because of the financial recklessness of
the PDP during the last general election, PDP
already had a bad name in Edo.
“And to add to the injury, the Pastor Osagie Ize-
Iyamu who was the PDP candidate was among
those who collected N700million for the
presidential election.
“And his visit to EFCC on the matter left sore
pain in campaigns. The other reason was the
attitude of the state Exco led by Chief Orbih.
“Rather than speaking on what PDP will do during
the campaigns, Orbih was busy raining abuses on
Oshiomhole who is an outgoing governor and
Godwin Obaseki. Meanwhile Obaseki was quietly
telling Edo people what he will do for them.
“So we should not waste our money going to
tribunal, we believe that PDP needs to sit down
and re-strategize but that will be after the entire
state Exco must have resigned for peace to
reign in Edo PDP.”
The group also called on the national leadership
of the party to set up a caretaker committee that
will oversee the affairs of the party before the
next congress is conducted, and that “the party
should prosecute all those who collected money
for the Edo election and pocketed it”.
Meanwhile, other supporters of the PDP
governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-
Iyamu, took to the streets on Monday, October 3,
in protest of the election result.
The protesters called for the cancellation of the
results announced by INEC which declared the
APC governorship candidate, Obaseki, winner of
the election.






Source :naijaloaded
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE