Trouble in Edo PDP over Obaseki
Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki’s defection to the Peoples Democratic Party last Friday was predictable. Once the All Progressives Congress disqualified him for possessing “defective qualifications”, it was clear Obaseki would need PDP’s platform to seek reelection.
In the 2019 general elections, the party led by Chief Dan Orbih won four of the nine House of Representatives slots. PDP grabbed two of the three senatorial seats in a move that shocked many pundits considering it was up against a ruling party whose National Chairman was immediate Governor. “If we didn’t build the structure, how would he consider the platform strong enough to fulfill his ambition? It is because we have built the party that he can think of joining us and not another party.”These stakeholders, according to indications, are displeased with Obaseki’s ‘grand’ entrance to the party. If anything, he too didn’t assuage their disenchantment.
One of them, Kenneth Imasuagbon, said: “The contemplation of me stepping down is preposterous. You can’t ask me to step down after my struggle for the past 16 years.
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