Okpebholo is becoming a dictator, says PDP

Chairman of Edo State People’s Democratic Party(PDP) Caretaker Committee, Tony Aziegbemi, has declared that the governor of the state Monday Okpebholo is gradually tilting towards dictatorship with the way that he is handling the affairs of the state.

Aziegbemi made the declaration in a press briefing in his party Secretariat on Friday evening on the heel of the ouster of the Chairman of the Oredo Local Government Council Chairman, Tom Obaseki by those he described as impostors.

He disclosed that those who on Friday morning pronounced that they have impeached the Chairman of Oredo Local Government Council, Tom Obaseki, are of no consequence as they’re impostors who never participated in the council election process.

“Short of calling what happened at Oredo Local Government Council this morning as a coup de tat I can’t find a better word for what happened where we had 12 impostors… We are trying to say what’s going on in Edo. How can under this governor, how can he allow impostors to say that they have driven away the elected people in the council.

“People that didn’t contest elections, people that don’t have certificate of returns. They will just gather in one room and say they have impeached the leader of the house, they have impeached the council Chairman etc. And everyone is quiet?”

Going further, Aziegbemi averred: “We have said this before our traditional rulers, our opinion moulders, our religious leaders in Edo State. They’re letting down Edo people. If they imagine that this is about politics. We should leave politicians to do what they do. It will get to a point where this sky will fall on everybody’s head.”

In conclusion, the PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman stated: “So, we have deemed it necessary to invite you to have this emergency press conference and to call the attention of the President, the IGP, the DG SSS, to what is happening in Edo State this morning. And we’re urging them, very urgently for that matter, to please take this issue very seriously and deal with it now that they can still deal with it.”