Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo State Chapter, has alerted Edo people, Nigerians, and the Federal Government to what is described as “the ongoing, coordinated and increasingly reckless campaign of calumny, provocation, distortion and hostility being orchestrated by the Edo State Government under Senator Monday Okpebholo and his cohort of overbearing APC godfathers.”
Going further in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Dan Osa-Ogbegie, Esq, PDP stated: “For months, the APC-led administration has deliberately sought to bait, distract and tarnish former Governor Godwin Obaseki, a leader who served Edo State with transparency, prudence, institutional reform and clarity of purpose.
“This lingering resentment stems from Obaseki’s principled refusal to surrender Edo’s resources to private pockets — a tradition entrenched under their former leader, Adams Oshiomhole, but courageously halted by Obaseki.”
According to the PDP, “instead of governing responsibly, the Okpebholo administration has spent its early months dismantling, undermining or frustrating the legacy projects and institutional gains of the Obaseki era.”
PDP asserted that “despite persistent provocations, Godwin Obaseki has maintained dignity and restraint. He has refused to descend into insults and mudslinging perfected by Okpebholo and his handlers.
“Instead, he has engaged Edo indigenes in the diaspora, giving honest accounts of stewardship — without once referencing the Okpebholo administration, whose operations are remote-controlled by bitter godfathers outside Osadebe Avenue.”
PDP was of the opinion that “the APC is angry because Obaseki still commands global respect. They are enraged because he speaks to Edo people across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa about achievements they cannot dispute. Their attacks only expose their insecurity.”
The PDP called on President Bola Tinubu “to rein in his party members in Edo. The conduct of Monday Okpebholo and his handlers is overheating the polity and may precipitate a seismic conflagration if not immediately curtailed. Their politics is driven by bitterness, not service; vendetta, not vision.”
In conclusion, the PDP said that it “stands solidly, unequivocally and unapologetically with Mr Godwin Obaseki. We will not allow his legacy to be undermined by those who contributed nothing to Edo’s progress.
“We stand with him because he governed with courage, protected Edo’s treasury, uplifted Edo’s people and resisted the predatory demands of political godfathers. History will vindicate him. Edo people already have.”
