The South-South Leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged all the governorship aspirants in Edo State to play by the rules of the game. This is as political activities heighten ahead of the June 18 governorship primary.
Speaking at a solidarity rally of the zone held inside Edo Government House, Friday, the National Vice Chairman, South South of the party, Prince Hilliard Eta said the aspirants should avoid campaigns of calumny, in-fighting, and bigotry.
Eta said it is an established fact that in some states where the opportunity of the party to win elections through popular mandate was presented, but it was rebuffed with a preference for mediocrity.
“This idea of imposition is not only unfortunate and regrettable but is one issue that we must guard against and we address issues of internal democracy in the Edo polls.
“As we go into the primary election, one mindset is real, one of you will emerge and whoever that person is, he is a candidate of all and his subsequent victory will be for all. For us as a party, we want to come back to Edo, have a roundtable with all of the aspirants and the candidate and decide on how to jointly move Edo forward from where Governor Oshiomhole has left it.”
The National Vice Chairman of the zone, Prince Eta reaffirmed that the Campaign process in Edo state must be free and fair as is acceptable to the entire Aspirants and their supporters.
“The idea of getting it right on internal democracy has been our watchword and we successfully experimented with it in Kogi state, we must replicate it in Edo for us to succeed.
“Today, Edo as they say, is the last stronghold of we in the South South APC. In fact, our pride as a party in this zone is Edo and that’s why we must do all within our reach to retain and establish it as the beautiful bride that all other states in the zone would want to emulate or be attracted to. Indeed, we must stake enormous resources to Campaign in all the nooks and crannies of the state leveraging on the performance index of the APC state government.”
The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun and Governor Adams Oshiomhole reassured the leadership of the zone and the Aspirants of Free and fair Governorship Primary come June 18.
