7th September, 2020
By Jethro Ibileke
Less than two weeks to the September 19 gubernatorial election in Edo State, the campaign council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of trying to smuggle a list containing names of party agents for five other political parties to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a release by the Chairman of the APC Media Campaign Council, Mr. John Mayaki, the party alleged that “Governor Godwin Obaseki was caught, trying to submit to INEC, a list of agents doctored in Edo State Government House, for some parties he had been sponsoring, though that exercise closed on September 5.”
Mayaki named the parties as APM, ADP, NRM and Labour Party; parties the governor and his PDP had been sponsoring and working in cahoot with.
He, however, called on INEC to be alert to any election rigging mischief.
According to him, “Whatever Obaseki hopes to achieve with his concert of losers is not clear.”
“Just two weeks to go, you could see the confusion in the Obaseki’s camp. It is getting clear to them they will be thrashed on election day.
“So, it’s electoral mischief galore, even of a most hare-brained kind, or how do you explain trying to smuggle in agents’ names when the exercise has closed?
“Each passing day, you would hear them groan and cry, and do things real crazy. But so would you, if you knew you were set for a total and comprehensive electoral hiding. That is the fate of Edo PDP,” Mayaki said.