Oshiomhole raises alarm on suspected PDP rigging conspiracy

Adams Oshiomhole Governor of Edo State, has told the public to a grand conspiracy by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to manipulate the votes by using federal employees to conduct the July 14 governorship elections.The governor disclosed this during an interactive session with members of the Nigerian Bar Association in Edo State, at the police officers’ mess, Benin City, insisting that the pronouncement of the Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to stop the use of youth corps members for the election will only cause confusion in the state.

Comrade Oshiomhole, who said that the PDP at a meeting in Abuja protested the use of youth corps members for the conduct of the election, because they are anticipating violence, noted that, it is a reflection of what they have in mind.

“They protested that they do not want corps members to conduct the elections, because they saw some corps members at the venue of our campaigns even when it was obvious that the rallies are held in schools and students are in session. They claimed the decision was due to the violence in the state,” he noted.

According to him, “they can bring the youth corps members from anywhere, from Sokoto, from Maiduguri, but we do not want federal employees. This election must be won or lost at the polling booth.”

Comrade Oshiomhole urged the NBA to prevail over the NYSC Director- General not to allow anybody to manipulate them, and if they allow federal civil servants to be used to conduct the election, they will bring people that will manipulate the election.

The governor who gave an account of his stewardship said he was fired to go into politics because of the poor state of affairs in the state which has so much promise and to demonstrate that the state was viable and that led to the administration doing some things differently.

“We have focused on areas completely abandoned by previous administrations and succeeded in delivering the greatest good to the greatest number of people around Benin City and across the state. We have made a bold statement on roads, connecting the rural communities with semi urban areas,” he noted.

He said Edo people will not forget in a hurry the horrible state of Benin City before his assumption of office, adding that that the government has now restored integrity in public schools, reordered government’s operations and cleaned up the wastage in the system.
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