PDP To Obaseki: Don’t Expect Preferential Treatment In PDP If Oshiomhole Stops You

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State has warned Governor Godwin Obaseki not to expect a preferential treatment for the party’s 2020 governorship ticket should he be forced out of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih who stated this in Benin while speaking to newsmen has also berated the APC for its poor capacity, saying that a party that is unable to manage 24 members of the House of Assembly can certainly not manage a state.

Orbih had been unusually below the radar in the face of the war of acrimony between Governor Obaseki and his political benefactor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole thus fueling speculations that the PDP was preparing to receive Governor Obaseki into the PDP.

Dispelling the insinuations, Orbih said:

“Even if Obaseki is coming to PDP, with his failure and rejection by his people, he won’t have preferential treatment.”

“Over the past few years, we have shown a difference between the PDP and APC, and I believed that many members of the APC, at one time or the other, have seen the difference between us and their party and have since joined the PDP.

“There is no doubt that there are many others who out of self-conviction will join us in future. But to be specific, I want to tell you very clearly, whether he [Obaseki] is willing to join us or not, he is the one you should ask the question.

“I don’t want us to start jumping bridge when we have not reached the river.

“As at today, Governor Obaseki is  a member of APC. Agreed, they have their internal quarrel, but he hasn’t informed​ Edo PDP that he has the intention of joining us.”

Berating the party over the problems in the Edo State House of Assembly, Orbih said:

“It is clear that Edo people can now see for themselves that a party that cannot manage 24 people in the state House of Assembly has no business in managing Edo State.

“It is time for Edo people to embrace the PDP so that we can give the people of the state the government they deserved.

“We are hearing that a list of commissioners has been submitted to the House that is made up of nine or 10 members and where majority of the members are yet to take their seats in the House.

”Let APC realize that Edo State is bigger than the membership that constitute the numbers of their political party,” Orbih said.

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