Edo State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress ( APC ) on Monday told President
Goodluck Jonathan that it was a tall
dream to think that Chief Tom Ikimi who
recently joined the PDP would win Edo
State for him.
The APC was apparently reacting to
Saturday’ s declaration by the President in
Benin that his Peoples Democratic Party
( PDP ) would recapture Edo State in 2015
and 2016 .
President Jonathan at a unity rally of the
PDP in Benin City, had declared that the
party would win Rivers and Edo states
back in 2015 and 2016 , asserting that in
Rivers State , “we know that the party in
charge is PDP , the APC only exist on
billboards ”.
But in a swift reaction, the APC through
the Special Adviser to Governor Adams
Oshiomhole on Political Matters and a
member of the state APC caucus , Charles
Idahosa , reminded the President that the
Binis which constitute over 50 per cent of
the population of Edo State have been
marginalised in his government and
therefore it would be a tall dream to think
that the “Esan godfather will win Edo for
him”.
“It is unfortunate that the President is
being deceived by the PDP leaders here
and people like Ikimi who recently defected
to the PDP because he lost out in the
chairmanship of the APC . It is just a dream
they can never deliver . Tom Ikimi who
spoke during the rally, how many people
defected to PDP with him?
“Ikimi said he left APC because after
cooking the food people came and stole
both the pot and the food but in this case ,
he forgot that it was Ize - Iyamu who
cooked those that left the APC for PDP but
he went at the stadium to hijack the show
by introducing Ize - Iyamu instead of Ize -
Iyamu introducing Ikimi to the President.
“Ize - Iyamu who did all the cooking was
now a spectator . The only people who
spoke at that rally, in Benin soil were two
Esan people , Anenin and Ikimi, and that is
the continuation of the subjugation of the
Binis by the minorities.
“Dr . Ogbemudia was never mentioned
there , former Governor Lucky Igbinedion
was seated there , his father Esama was
seated, none of them was asked to speak,
yet President Jonathan is boasting that
PDP will win Edo, that is laughable ,” he
stated.
“We will deal with them in February. As we
speak today there is no single Bini man or
woman who is a Minister, Permanent
Secretary , CEO , so what is the PDP going
to tell Benin people that will make the
Benins vote for PDP ? . And the days of
rigging are over. We are going to deal with
them . Every appointment is in Esan, Uromi
in particular . It is a wild dream to say they
will win Edo ,” he further stated.
--Daily Independent

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