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Edo PDP Crisis: ‘We’ll Capitalize On It To Take Over Power’ – APC

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4 years ago

March 14, 2022

The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has vowed to capitalize on the disarray in the state’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to take over power in the state.

The state Chairman of the APC,
Col David Imuse, who made the vow on Monday, described the problem facing the PDP in the state as self-inflicted.

Imuse said that his party was not bothered about the crisis as they knew what would happen when Governor Godwin Obaseki defected to the PDP after he was denied a second term ticket by the APC.

He said: “It is clear that the PDP is in disarray. It is a self-inflicted injury. We told the whole world that Obaseki and his co-travellers are pollutants and irritants. And wherever they go to, they represent ingratitude. I am not ready to dwell on their problem. So, how they wriggle out of the problem, is there problem.

“Edo APC is very well organised. Those causing problems left on their own volition and they are now trying to destroy the party sheltering them and I wish them goodluck. We are fully settled, our structures are in place from the state, wards and to the units. We are prepared and ready to take back the governance of the state,” he added.

Speaking about APC’s plans for the House of Assembly, Reps and Senate elections next year, Imuse stated that the APC is poised to dominating the elections and emerge better as a party.

He said: “Our people came out, supported the APC and we won all the House of Assembly seats but unfortunately for our people, they have been denied representation, so no one is happy. So the 2023 general election Is when Edo people has to tell Obaseki and those he is supporting that they are not needed. The handwriting is clear, come 2023, APC will emerge victorious.

“You can see that people are jostling for various positions on our party platform. It shows the viability and acceptability of the APC in Edo State. That Is why everyone wants to identify with us and contest elections. They know Edo is APC and APC is Edo. It is a good omen for our party, the more the merrier. We have always had rancour free primaries in the past. The same will play out in the next primaries and we will come out victorious in the state elections.”

He added: “The PDP Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu recently visited Edo. We are not worried about that but what is worrisome is that a Governor will belittle his office and insult the national Chairman of a party by bringing him to come and commission a jetty for canoes and motor park by Oba Market while his mates are commissioning heavy development projects.

“To me, it shows that the Governor has ran out of ideas completely. What we have in the government House is a political jester who has noting to offer Edo People. The commissioning he brought the PDP chairman to do is a job meant for a local government Chairman,” he added.

When asked why the APC should not take the blame for Obaseki’s emergence as the state governor, he said: “There is no way to find the construction of a man’s heart in his face. Obaseki was a able to deceive some members of the APC and we worked for him to become the Governor of the state with an agenda of the party.

“But immediately he became Governor, he jettisoned the idea the party stood for and that is why the party refused him the second term ticket. We all saw what his predecessors, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole did. He constructed roads, schools and other infrastructures and we thought whoever comes in will continue from there,” he added.

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Dino Melaye Reacts To Malami’s Arraignment For Money Laundering

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3 days ago

December 30, 2025

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Ex-Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the arraignment of a former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, before an Abuja Federal High Court.

Melaye wished Malami well as he began his trial for corruption.

Posting on X, the former lawmaker recalled how he was prosecuted by Malami over what he described as frivolous cases while he was the AGF.

He wrote: “Reminded me of how I was appearing in different courts when Malami as AGF was prosecuting me over frivolous cases including taking over one of the police cases against me. Wish him.well.”

Malami, his son Abdulaziz, and another individual are facing a 16-count charge of money laundering.

They were arraigned on allegations of unlawful acquisition and concealment of funds.

They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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What PDP Said About Wike’s Media Parley

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of being a constant agent of provocation in the political space, alleging that he creates trouble to mask selfish intentions.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this in a statement issued on Monday in response to Wike’s media parley with selected journalists in Port Harcourt, also held on Monday.

According to the PDP, remarks made by the minister on several occasions are proof that he falls short of being a locus classicus of anti-democratic adventurism.

The party said Wike’s conduct was not new, stressing that he has consistently acted as an agent provocateur in the political arena, stirring controversy to advance personal interests.

The PDP further stated that since Wike assumed office as Governor of Rivers State in 2015, he has remained a recurrent source of trouble within the party’s leadership.

“From the Sheriff era, where he was a forerunner in the Sheriff-for-National Chairman movement and later turned to fight and remove Sheriff; later he championed the Uche Secondus-for-National Chairman movement (in fact, he granted a very combustible interview that polarized the party just before the convention) and then was the same person fighting to remove Secondus.

“The same Wike led the movement to produce Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman against the advice of many party leaders, and so soon thereafter, it was Wike again who led the Ayu-must-go struggle.

“By his end-of-year media chat, Minister Nyesom Wike has reiterated his support for, and in fact declared that he is the ‘number one supporter’ of the presumptive candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 Presidential election, while remaining a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, confirming the basis of his expulsion from the PDP, for anti-party activities,” the statement said.

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JUST IN: INEC Excludes PDP From Ekiti Governorship Election

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2026 Ekiti governorship election, Dr Wole Oluyede, and his deputy were conspicuously absent as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, released the provisional list of party candidates ahead of the election.

INEC on Monday posted the list of candidates from 12 political parties vying for the state’s top job at its office on New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The list shows that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is fielding the incumbent governor, Biodun Oyebanji, with Monisade Afuye as his running mate.

Other candidates include Opeyemi Falegan of the Accord Party, with Omoyemi Olaleye as deputy; Akande Oluwasegun of the African Action Congress, paired with Oluwasanmi Fajuyigbe; and Ayodeji Ojo of the Action Democratic Party, with Itunu Ibitoye as running mate.

Similarly, the African Democratic Congress is presenting Oluwadare Bejide and Paul Olowoyeye, while the Action Peoples Party has Bidemi Awogbemi and Akinyemi Adewumi on its ticket.

The PDP’s absence may not be unconnected with the leadership crisis currently rocking the party at the national level.