The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Edo State, Emmanuel Odigie, has communicated the reason the party refused to sign the peace accord with other parties ahead of the September 21 gubernatorial election in the state.
Odigie, a former spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Integrity Group, said on televised broadcast, on Monday.
He said, “The PDP has made demands, they never said they won’t sign. All they want is for the Special Forces to be withdrawn out of Edo. We already have a very effective state police command, so why bring in these Special Forces to Edo to harass people?” Odigie queried.
He kept up with the fact that the PDP is prepared to sign the peace accord if the Federal Government can meet the party’s request.
On why, he dumped the APC for the PDP, Odigie guaranteed that he gave up his membership of the APC because of the lack of internal democracy and imposition of “the most incompetent candidate” on the people of Edo State.
He went ahead to defend Lead Representative Godwin Obaseki’s statement that the election is a do-or-die affair, making sense of the fact that on the off chance the people do not vote, they would die of hunger, and so the Lead Representative was only saying that if people do not vote they would die of starvation.
At the point when political parties taking part in the Edo election inked down the peace accord on Thursday to evade violence, PDP refused to partake in what has turned into a pre-election ritual in Nigeria’s electoral space.
Former Head of State, General Adulsalami Abubakar, who is the head of the Peace Committee had said that PDP chieftain and outgoing governor (Obaseki) said the party won’t sign the peace pact over some allegations levelled against the police.
PDP Chairman in the state, Tony Aziegbemi, likewise stomped out of the peace pact venue in protest on Thursday.
He told reporters on his way out that a member of his party who doubles as Esan West Local Government Area Chairman, Collins Aigbogu, was apprehended by the police days ago and had not been released.
