Edo PDP List: Disarray In Obaseki’s Camp As Orbih Triumphs

The camp of Chief Dan Orbih, the National Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State was in euphoria on Monday after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC confirmed the list of candidates aligned to his faction of the party as candidates in the National Assembly election.

GWG.ng reports that the Orbih camp and the tendency aligned to Governor Godwin Obaseki had been in dispute over the candidates’ list to represent the PDP in the National and State assembly elections.

Both factions had conducted primaries but the INEC had endorsed the primary conducted by the Orbih faction having monitored it.

Attempts to reverse the recognition had been a ding-dong in the courts with the Orbih tendency projecting the INEC recognition, broad street support among others as its trump card.

Sources in Edo State disclosed that politicians aligned to Governor Obaseki are now in a cul de sac given the fact that they are unable to project themselves politically having lost out in the contest for electoral relevance.

A source in the Orbih camp was effusive with joy on Monday saying that God had justified them in their struggle for justice.

The source was particularly glad for Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, the outgoing member of the House of Representatives, Oredo Federal Constituency who surrendered his governorship aspiration to accommodate Governor Obaseki when he joined the party from the APC in June 2020.

Ogbeide-Ihama was listed as the PDP candidate for Edo South.

Following his gesture and the crisis that followed, Ogbeide-Ihama became a target for the Obaseki tendency who sought to remove him from the party and also quash his Senate ambition.

It was also gathered that several leaders in the Obaseki camp had been reaching out to Orbih for them to be accommodated in the future.

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