Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State will be a battle between Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party and the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress , Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State in the volatile Niger Delta region will involve 14 political parties.
Ize-Iyamu media aide John Mayaki, disclosed that APC had uncovered a sinister plot traceable to the PDP and Obaseki to compromise identified officials of the various agencies carrying out key roles and facilitate comprehensive rigging agenda during the September 19 governorship election. It said: “While APC’s governorship candidate in Edo will win the September 19 election on a fair and level-playing ground, without reducing himself to dirty crookery as being hatched by PDP, it is enough to declare that the rejected party’s rigging plans will avail them nothing, as the electorate have seen through the deceit of Obaseki, who spent entire four years piling excuses and Memoranda of Understanding , with the people’s welfare remaining secondary in his estimation.
Edo PDP alleged that the leaders of the ‘unpopular’ APC were engaging in propaganda, since they had nothing to offer people of the state, while assuring that Obaseki would emerge victorious on September 19 and to be inaugurated again on November 12. IGP, in his remarks, declared that the security agencies would deal decisively with disruptive elements before, during and after the September 19 election in Edo.He said: “Election remains the most critical part of any democracy and this underscores the series of violence that has characterised the build-up to the election in Edo State. We are not resting on our oars to ensure that security is top notch in the state before, during and after the election.
On September 15, the Chairman of the National Peace Committee , Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar , warned Edo state’s politicians that violators of the peace accord were putting their integrity on the line. At the signing of peace accord, Obaseki and Ize-Iyamu assured of violence-free election on Saturday, while promising to prevail on their supporters to ensure peace.
Obaseki, in his remarks, said: “I want to say on behalf of myself, as a candidate of the party and my party, the PDP, that we are fully committed to ensuring that we have peaceful election.”Ize-Iyamu said: “Let me reaffirm our commitment to what has been signed and to assure Nigerians and particularly our people in Edo State, that we will talk to all our supporters and we will conduct ourselves peacefully. We will do our best to ensure that the election is peaceful.
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