Former deputy governor of Edo State and nominee into the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Pius Odubu, has charged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state not to take the crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for granted.
He urged them to campaign rigorously to ensure victory for the party in the 2023 general election.
Odubu gave this charge at the inauguration of the party’s campaign council to ensure victory for the candidate of the party for Oredo federal constituency, Hon Osaro Obazee.
He said, “The biggest mistake is to take the crisis in the PDP for granted, no matter the crisis in the PDP, no matter the disobedience in the Labour Party, we must work hard to win the election.
“We have to work extremely hard to win this election. We must become what I call political Jehovah Witnesses, we must farm out to the nooks and crannies of the local government, Oredo is not just Benin city, we have all the surrounding communities, we must visit them all and preach the gospel of APC.
“As we campaign, we campaign for our presidential candidate, senatorial candidate, all the House of Representatives candidates and all the state house of assembly candidates because together victory is assured. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the issue in Nigerian politics today. We must put all our quarrels behind us and work together as one to win because if we don’t win, there is nothing to share.”
On his part, the state chairman of the party, Col. David Imuse (rtd) said the success of the APC in the 2023 elections would be a precursor to the party winning back the state in 2024.
While inaugurating the council, Obazee said they must subject themselves to the leadership of the state campaign council which would coordinate all campaign activities of the party and charged them to take the campaigns to the wards and units “because every politics is local.”
Among the dignitaries at the event were the former governorship candidate of the party in the 2020 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Razaq Belo-Osagie, former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon Uyi Igbe, former members of the state House of Assembly, candidates of the party for the Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly from Edo South senatorial district among others.
