Edo PDP divided over Atiku campaign rally

The lingering crisis which has polarized the Edo State PDP may affect the success of the party’s presidential rally slated for 22^nd of October as the Edo State Legacy PDP members have resolved not to be part of the campaign rally.

Hon. Mathew Imasogie, a PDP Chieftain from Oredo LGA, said the resolve is partly occasioned by the lingering crisis in the state, which has seen members of the Legacy PDP not making the list in the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in spite of their years of dedication to the Party.

He added that in 2019, the same members delivered the state to Atiku even when the sitting governor then, Obaseki, was in APC.

According to him, “I am a stakeholder in PDP but you see, we have resolved not to participate or attend the PDP campaign rally coming up on the 22nd of October.

“Our names were deliberately omitted from the Presidential Campaign Council, and we know it is the machinations of both the State Chairman, Tony Aziegbemi and Governor Godwin Obaseki.

“This is not different from our exclusion from the government. We are used to it.

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“We want to see, as they have told Atiku, that without members of the Legacy PDP, few of them who came with Obaseki from APC can deliver Edo State to PDP at the presidential election.

“One of them boasted in Akwa Ibom that they will ‘pray and support’ the governor to deliver the state 70% to him. These are people who cannot win their wards without the large crowd of the Legacy PDP members.

“We would be watching, we know, everyone knows the people who have been delivering PDP in that state, not the feel-good members who go to Abuja to mislead the presidential candidate that they can win easily without us.

“We shall be on the watch out that day – any member of the Legacy PDP who attends shall be seen as not a true member of the group. This is our resolve and nothing can change it. Let Obaseki and his group go there,” he concluded.