In a last-ditch effort to induce Edo voters, the People's Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate in the coming gubernatorial election, Godwin Obaseki have been genuflecting, begging cap in hand for loan from commercial banks across the country.
Progressives Media Organisation (PMO) a media advocacy network for APC finds that the already kicked out governor and his party are now frustrated as the banks have turned down their loan request and vowed not to offer any facility to someone they consider as unrepentant dictator and anti-democratic fellow.
PMO gathered on good authority that the banks refusal to Obaseki's request is based on the fact that there are two factions laying claims to the leadership of the Edo State House of Assembly, sensing that the court may recorgnize the faction with majority members. The crisis leading to a factionalized state assembly leadership was due to the way Governor Obaseki brazenly undermined Rule of Law by locking out majority of elected House of Assembly members from chamber since the inception of his administration.
Obaseki had previously secured chains of loans in the name of the state without achieving what the loans were meant for.
Ridiculously, he in his weird imagination thinks that by securing more loans, squandering and frittering Edo people’s collective patrimony, prosecuting an already lost election, he would save his face from the shame of defeat that awaits him few hours from now.
Frustrated and cash-strapped, Obaseki has been begging his Rivers State friend like a drowning man to come to his rescue. Obaseki must accept the reality staring at him by immediately submitting to the will of Edo people. Let their votes decide.
He was four years ago sold to the people in error, a mistake our dear party has owned up to. Now that the people are fed up with the dictatorial tendencies of a man who has offered nothing but misery and pain to the people, it is time to kick him along with his plummeting party out of Government House.
As a party whose stock in trade is falsehood and mischievous propaganda, we are not surprised that the sinking and stinking PDP has resorted to pointing fingers in a desperate effort to clutch on to anything, including straw to justify their rejection on Saturday.
PDP's accusations of vote buying arrangement by our party is pure calculative calumny. The party has realized that its scorched-earth campaign has failed. Now in a malicious bit to gain cheap sympathy. But the intelligent people of Edo are wise enough and will vote out a government that has festered pain and violated their sensibility.
Even in the face of lies and deceitful antics of Obaseki and his fizzling party, the good people of Edo are aware of the facts and records. No amount of fictitious accusations will save Obaseki and his party come September 19.
Edo voters are prepared to go out and vote for the progressive party and its candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a tested and trusted man of God, a democrat and performer. Edo must be on the part of progress and prosperity again. An end to this impunity in governance has come. Time to usher in change is now.
Signed
Peter Ioter
National Publicity Secretary
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