Obaseki Silent As PDP Dares Him To Name Those He Bribed For Election Ticket

Eyes were on Wednesday fixed on Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State after the outgoing national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, called on him to speak up on allegations that he offered bribe to the party in the build-up to his emergence as the PDP candidate in the 2020 Edo state governorship election.

At a valedictory session held in honour of the Prince Uche Secondus-led leadership at the party’s secretariat Wednesday, the PDP denied demanding or collecting any form of financial gratification before handing Obaseki the ticket of the party to fly the flag of the PDP in September 2020 governorship election.

Speaking at the event, outgoing national publicity secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan said: “Let me state without mincing words that the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, owes the members of this NWC the responsibility of clearing our names before the public.

“I will like to place on record that this NWC did not demand for any form of gratification from Obaseki before he got the ticket of our party.

“It is also important to restate that this NWC did not demand any form of “tax” from Governor Obaseki neither did we collect same. He, therefore, owes it a duty to clear our names,” he said in the demand that Obaseki clears the air he gave bribe for the PDP ticket.

Ologbondiyan’s demand is not unconnected with allegations pressed against the Secondus-led NWC by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state when a few months ago, he labeled them as tax collectors.

“They are tax collectors. Let them challenge me and I will come out with more facts. Nobody will rubbish me by raising false accusations against me. I will fight back,” Wike was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the Rivers state Commissioner of Information, Paulinus Nsirim.

The valedictory session was attended by prominent party chieftains including incoming national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, national secretary-elect, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Tanimu Turaki among others.

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