The ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Edo State has suffered another setback as it has lost a notable member, who is a spokesman of the party’s gubernatorial flagbearer, Asue Ighodalo, as well as a political appointee of Governor Godwin Obaseki, who resigned his membership of the party today.
In his letter of resignation addressed to the Chairman of the party in Ward 5, Esan South East Local Government Area, Hon. Clem Aziegbemi, who is a kid brother of the Chairman of the party in the state, Hon. Tony Aziegbemi, said he is leaving the party among other reasons “as a result of the internal divisions within the PDP, which the party hierarchy has failed to address that led to mass exodus of members from the ruling party to the opposition party in the state.”
According to him, “the cause of this massive defection of members from the PDP is largely due to conquest attitude of the party leadership that lacks inclusivity of members into appointment in the state which the party loyalists worked for, yet they were abandoned for new entrants. The old PDP members, which I belong to, have suffered a great deal in the hands of the party’s leadership and those in government.
“Both the governor and party candidate have failed to address these issues begging for attention. With this ugly development still persisting, it will be very difficult for the party to win any local government in the September 21st, 2024 governorship election in Edo State.
“Another disturbing issue is the seemingly hijack of the PDP governorship candidate by a gang of political jobbers, as against those of us who laboured for him to emerge as candidate of the party.”
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