Edo primary: Aggrieved PDP aspirant pledges loyalty to Sheriff
An aspirant of the Peoples Democratic
Party in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, Matthew
Iduoriyekemwen, has rejected the outcome of the party’s primary, which
produced Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as its candidate.
He also pledged his loyalty to the Ali Modu Sheriff leadership of the
party and added that he would participate in the primary election of
the group scheduled for June 28.
Ize-Iyamu had been declared the winner of the exercise by the
committee chaired by the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, with a
total of 584 votes to defeat his two other opponents, Iduoriyekemwen and
Solomon Edebiri, who got 91 and 38 votes, respectively.
But the former Majority Leader in the state House of Assembly, who
spoke on Friday evening in Benin, the state capital, described the
primary election as a “comedy” which was “clinically manipulated” to
favour a preferred candidate of the state leadership of the party.
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