Leadership Earned, Not Forced, Edo PDP Group Faults Obaseki

The PDP Defenders Forum in Edo State has kicked against the charge by Governor Godwin Obaseki to those against his leadership and actions in the party to leave the party.

The group in a statement issued by its coordinator Ken Ekpe described the governor’s order as illogical, infantile, and challenged him to quote a section of the party’s constitution that conferred leadership of the party on him by force.

Governor Obaseki had at a meeting with some party stakeholders mostly his aides with only the PDP state chairman representing the party claimed leadership of what he described as the harmonized PDP in the state.

“First we want to affirm that we are ignorant of any harmonized PDP in Edo State given the fact that PDP executives can only emerge according to the constitution of our great party from elections. These elections were done before Governor Obaseki joined us and he cannot sit in his office with his fellow former APC travelers to harmonise what he did not bring to birth.”

“Second, we have heard and read the governor repeatedly claim that he is leader of the party merely because he is governor. Yes, while we revere our governors as leaders, we say that this is not a constitutional fact and it is not assumed by force. For more than one year we have seen how Governor Obaseki and his erstwhile APC enforcers have ridden roughshod over our party as he and his ex-APC have not added any value to our brand, but rather fought vainly to divide us, but to no avail.

“We thus challenge him and his emissaries to quote the specific section of the Constitution that has made him the leader of the party in Edo State.”

While disputing the claim by Governor Obaseki on his leadership of the PDP in Edo State, the group said:

“On the basis of that, the great majority of party members who have refused his plans to forcefully restructure our executives at all levels serve him the notice that we are not leaving our party for him.

“It should shock Governor Obaseki that the anthem in the Edo State Chapter of the PDP today is that he should take his government and leave our party alone. The handouts he is giving are not enough for us to mortgage our collective interest in a strong and united party that has won plaudits across the nation for having been the most vibrant opposition party in the days of yore.”

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