EDO 2020 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION; PANPIEC PREACHES PEACE, INITIATES MOVES TO RECONCILE OSHOMOLE AND OBASEKI OUTSIDE PARTY LINES.

The Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition PANPIEC, the umbrella body for all Groups championing for Igbo to become Nigeria President after Muhammad Buhari in 2023 has launched moves to reconcile the former Edo state Governor Adams Oshomole and the incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki. This was made known in a statement signed by the group's Spokesman Prince Erondu Uche.

In the press release, Prince Erondu Uche advised the Edo governor Godwin Obaseki, Adams Oshomole and their supporters to continue to put the interest of Edo people first. He urged Edo state indigenes and residents to ensure that the leadership tussle rocking the state will not cause violence before, during and after the forth coming gubernatorial election in the state. He noted that the governorship position is not worth the life of any individual hence no life should be lost in the tussle.

The PANPIEC Spokesman noted that the group's Central Working Committee CWC has set up a Peace committee to work with Southsouth Zone and Edo state chapter of PANPIEC to bring peace between the two former allies. He expressed optimism that the peace initiative will work since it is being done outside political party lines. In his words " we want to reconcile them as friends even if they won't belong to the same political party again. The people in the committee are people they will listen to, we also have to include the clergymen and traditional rulers to make it a formidable team". The Peace committee which is headed by Chief Pat Anyanwu is expected to make reconcile the duo before the governorship election takes place.

Prince Erondu Uche advised both parties to embrace peace and urged the people of Edo state to resist mischief makers who may want to take advantage of the political situation in the state to ferment trouble.

This is story for the century. They will surely reconcile but not yet now. Atiku reconciled with Obasanjo anyway.

The PANPIEC committee lacks what to do