APC Crisis: PDP’ll Soon Be in The Majority in Edo House of Assembly – Orbih, Out-Going State Chairman
by Adekunbi EroBut unlike Orbih, some members of the party have their fears that things might go awry for the party if a chairmanship candidate is imposed on it by the out-going chairman. Only on Monday, a group which identified itself as PDP Youths for Justice threatened to hold parallel congresses and primaries should the processes of the party’s congresses which start January 15 are biased. In a seeming preemptive move to checkmate the out-going chairman, the PDP youths said they raised the alarm because the party might lose its chances to win the Edo governorship election. Coordinator of the group, Musa Kadiri, accused Orbih of positioning Ugbesia to take over from him as the state party chairman. Kadiri called on the party leader, Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion to intervene to ensure that the earlier agreement of no-zoning principle was maintained.
Ogbeide-Ihama used the opportunity to debunk speculations that had become rife that he was dumping the PDP for the APC because the embattled governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki, was making moves to defect to the PDP. Ogbeide-Ihama said he had been a PDP member since 1998 and that he had no plan of leaving his party for any other political party for any reason. According to him, “I am not sure where you heard that from. I have been in PDP since 1998, I am sure you are aware? So I do not even know how any other political party looks like just now”.
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