Benin, Sept. 5, 2020
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday threatened to set up an inquiry into the incident that led to the fire outbreak that razed the Ministry of Education, Iyaro, Benin between 2011/2012.
Chief Dan Orbih, Chairman of the PDP Edo governorship election campaign council handed down the threat during the party’s ward to ward combined campaign rally for wards one and two, Oredo Local Government Area.
Orbih said that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
He said that if the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the immediate past governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, fails to stop talking about the educational qualification of the PDP candidate, he would personally sponsor an independent judicial enquiry into the fire outbreak.
He also said that no man could truncate the two terms of eight years tenure of its candidate, Gov Godwin Obaseki, adding that since the return to democracy, successive governments in the state had done two terms of uninterrupted eight years.
He noted that the tenure of Obaseki would not be an exemption, adding that this is even more so because of the achievements of the present administration in the state.
He stressed that what the administration had achieved in four years was far greater and much more than what the immediate past administration achieved in eight years.
He explained that the administration had among other achievements completed projects abandoned for more than 45 years.
He further said that the eligible voters in the state should not be intimidated by the opposition’s threat to unleash “human lions and tigers” during the election, saying the lions and tigers should find their way to the zoo.
Meanwhile Obaseki has said that the Sept. 19 election would strengthen the bond of unity of citizens of the state.
Obaseki noted that Edo had always been united and the unity had always reflected even during election to choose the state governor.
He noted that he was optimistic that citizens of the state would not allow one man especially from the minority disrupt the unity of the state.
He called on the electorate to rise up and stand together against divisive forces whose agenda is to cause disunity and chaos in the state.
