Edo 2024: Ighodalo congratulates APC, LP candidates, advocates issue-based campaign

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, has congratulated the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday Okpebholo, and the Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata, on their victories at their respective party primaries.

Ighodalo advocated focus on issue-based campaign for the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state.

Monday Okpebholo of APC, left; Olumide Akpata of LP, right.

Ighodalo had decried that “the February 2023 general elections saw a level of hate and vitriol masked as political sloganeering that took this nation to the brink and the fires politicians lit back then continued to smoulder across the nation.”

He, therefore, advocated: “I and my team will continue to campaign to the people of Edo State in language and behaviour that seek to unite rather than divide. We will stay focused on the issues that matter to our people.

“There will be no descent into abuse, ethnic-baiting, and name-calling.

“We must not destroy the unity of the state we seek to govern.

“I, therefore, urge all my fellow candidates to similarly run respectful issues-based campaigns.”