Oshiomhole says PDP’s plan to reclaim Edo state is dead on arrival

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state
has said the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) stand no chance of defeating the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the
September 10 governorship election in the
state.
Speaking during the APC stakeholders’
meeting in Benin on Wednesday, July 13,
Oshiomhole described PDP’s plan to reclaim
Edo state as a campaign “dead on arrival”,
The Punch reports.
Oshiomhole said that the absence of the
PDP governors at the flag-off of the party
governorship campaign showed that the
party already rejected the candidate of one
of its factions.
Governor Oshiomhole has described PDP’s
plan to reclaim the state in the September
10 Edo election as a campaign “dead on
arrival”.
He said: “The campaign of the PDP for the
forthcoming governorship election in the state
is dead on arrival. Whether you like it or not,
the PDP engine is dead on arrival.
“The early morning signals are clear. For the
first time since 1999, a candidate was being
presented to the people of Edo state for the
most important single job and the key pillars
were there fastened to their chairs and their
tables, none of them could stand on their feet
to say one word.
“While the PDP couldn’t get any national
person of note to present a tattered flag, our
own national chairman will be around, as a
former governor, former federal permanent
secretary and national chairman of the
governing party to present the flag to our
candidate.
“My brother governors will be coming from
Friday; all the progressives governors will be
here to show solidarity. We are not going to
be represented by one governor. The
governors will come.”

The governor, who recently reconciled with
his deputy, Pius Odubu, over the emergence
of the party’s flag bearer, said: “I submit and
I decree that the fact that he (Odubu) readily
accepted in the manner that he did, shows that
he knew that he has a stake in this house. His
sweat together with your sweat was used to
mold the blocks with which this house was
built.
“The reason the Deputy Governor’s position is
extremely important is that there is nobody
that has any reason to be more aggrieved in
status, in rank than him.”