Edo North No-Go Area For PDP – APC Mocks Obaseki, Shaibu

BY VICTOR BUORO – The Edo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the Edo North Senatorial District remains a no-go area for the ruling party in the State during the 2023 general elections.

Also, the APC saluted the Edo State Chairman of PDP, Dr Tony Aziegbemi for his ‘honest’ disposition in admitting the truth that the party has never won elections in the Senatorial District since 2008.

Speaking through its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Victor Osehobo, the opposition APC described as laughable, Friday’s ‘purported’ defection of 64 APC leaders to an unnamed faction of the PDP, noting that such news was an umbrella of lies, emanating from the failed governing party in the state.

Osehobo urged Governor Godwin Obaseki; and his deputy, Philip Shaibu; whom he said were not even PDP members, and the State Party Chairman (Aziegbemi) to be wary of the self-deceit, laced with a bogus and unfounded figure of new entrants.

According to the APC’s spokesperson, “Dr. Aziegbemi summed up the reality of this charade when he admitted openly that since 2008, the PDP, both online/escortees and legacy, has been losing Edo North Senatorial District, and is bound to do the same in 2023. We commend the embattled politician for his honesty.

“Ironically, none of the so-called decampees’ leaders could have mustered any modicum of support from their bases, as their antecedents tally with that of Edo governor as a serial betrayer, and the state’s deputy governor, a prodigal son, who regularly and publicly disowns and disgraces his supposed ‘father’ (Comrade Adams Oshiomhole).

“Two of the decampees, Senator Francis Alimikhena, the representative of Edo North Senatorial District, and Mr. Lucky James stood out like sore thumbs. The senator returned to his vomit, in his desperation to return to the Senate, knowing full well that the position is neither his birthright nor his inheritance; and Mr. James, a political trader, whose greed and insatiable appetite for relevance is public knowledge.”

Osehobo further described the Edo PDP and its new members as “figurative jesters, typical of a drowning political party that had lived its life solely on betrayals, falsehood, fraud, and propaganda”.

In wishing the defectors failure in their endeavors, the APC image maker declared that Edo State must move forward from the current charade by Governor Obaseki-led administration.

The defectors, led by Senator Alimikhena, claimed they were leaving APC due to the injustice against the lawmaker who lost to Comrade Oshiomhole, former Edo State Governor and APC National Chairman, also an ex-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).

Edo State Deputy Governor Shaibu, while receiving the defectors, expressed happiness to reunite with the people, with whom he had shared a political journey in the past, claiming that the defection was the beginning of a movement aimed at taking the PDP to victory in Edo North senatorial district and other parts of the state in next year’s general election.