- Edo state chapter of the PDP has advised President Buhari not to be deceived by the promise made by Governor Godwin Obaseki to him if he seeks re-election in 2019
- PDP said Obaseki promised the president that the state will deliver 1.2 million votes to him
- The party, however, promised to deliver over 65 percent of the votes to PDP in the election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state said President Mohammed Buhari should not to believe the promise by the state Governor Godwin Obaseki that the state would deliver 1.2 million votes to him in the 2019 general election.
Vanguard reports that the PDP vowed that it would defeat the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the election by securing 65 per cent of the votes.
The state chairman of the PDP Dan Orbih made the promise of 1.2million votes made by Obaseki was empty and unrealistic.
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He, however, urged President Buhari not to be deceived by the governor’s promise.
Orbih spoke while addressing PDP youths in Benin City at a conference tagged: “Youth and Leadership: Waking Up The Sleeping Giant.”
He noted that in the last presidential election conducted under former Governor Adams Oshiomhole, the APC secured 45 percent of the votes while the PDP got 56 percent.
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According to him, ''I listened to governor Obaseki promising Buhari 1.2 million votes in Edo State in the next presidential election. Let me use this opportunity to say the statement by Godwin Obaseki is an empty promise. Godwin Obaseki is a man with a very short memory.
In the last presidential election where Buhari was the presidential candidate in Edo state, Edo PDP delivered 56 percent of the votes to Goodluck Jonathan while APC deliver only 45 percent to Buhari and this was under Adams Oshiomhole spending the state funds and they did not defeat us during the presidential election.''
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha said that re-electing President Buhari in 2019 would be of benefit to the quest by the southeast to produce the president of the country.
Mustapha made the statement at the weekend, at a reception organised for the permanent secretary, cabinet affairs office, Georgina Ehuria, by the former governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu.
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Source: Naija.ng