Edo Guber Ticket: PDP Gives Conditions To Obaseki, Rivals

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State has given conditions for Governor Godwin Obaseki and his rivals in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the state to obtain the governorship ticket of the PDP ahead of the 2020 election.

Obaseki and his traducers in the Edo State chapter of the APC are engaged in a mutual war of destruction that has defied reconciliations at all levels.

With the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole backing the governor’s traducers it has been generally claimed that Obaseki will be denied the party’s governorship ticket with a number of aspirants already bidding for the ticket.

At the same time it is also claimed that should Obaseki bulldoze his way to obtain the ticket that his sworn enemies in the APC would move over to the PDP to frustrate him, putting the PDP as the beautiful bride for the contenders in the ruling party.

Now speaking on the issue in an interview, Chief Dan Orbih, the powerful chairman of the Edo State chapter of the PDP while acknowledging the permutations on the ground, however, affirmed that the party’s ticket would not be reserved for Obaseki or anyone else.

According to him some APC members had already quietly taken position inside the party ready to make their bidding for the governorship ticket when the time comes.

Orbih who spoke in an interview with Daily Independent said:

“Our political party, the PDP is open to membership from all who are interested in building our democracy, unlike what you have in APC, ours is a truly democratic party and it is not in our nature to discriminate against Nigerians who want to join us.

“We have leading funding members or foundation members of APC who I have seen saying that there is nothing like the democracy in PDP who have since retraced their steps back to PDP, in the same manner I believe either now or in the future many people who will discover the difference between the APC and PDP will definitely come to approach PDP to be accommodated as members.

“We are not in negotiation with anybody about the ticket of our party in Edo State rather those who have enlisted as members of the party who will satisfy the constitutional provision for vying for the office of governor within the party are free to indicate interest. If Obaseki decides to join PDP as member of the party and is interested in contesting the governorship, he like many others who have already shown interest will have to face the members of the party for primaries.

“The Edo governorship ticket is not a piece of cake for negotiation with anybody, all those who are willing to contest the governorship will be prepared to subject themselves to the rigors of party primaries and it is left for the party delegates for the nomination of the governorship candidate to decide who will best represent the interest of the party and Edo people, that is how democratic our party is.”

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