4th May, 2024
By Jethro Ibileke
Governor Godwin Obaseki has expressed confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will secure up to 80 percent of the total votes in the Edo 2024 governorship poll to ensure the election for its candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
The Governor boasted that the party had the best candidate who would continue from where he would stop.
He spoke during the inauguration of the campaign council of the party for the 21 September governorship election in Edo State on Friday
Obaseki noted that the structure of the campaign council was rooted in all the 192 wards across the state, adding that every organ of the party was captured.
He said: “Today, we are here to inaugurate the campaign council that will lead PDP to victory in the Sept.21 governorship election.
“The campaign is going to be based on what we have achieved and the lives we have touched. The campaign will also be based on the future not the past.
“We see the suffering the people are going through, so the campaign will be based on the hope PDP will give our citizens.
“Those fighting PDP have collected money from the other political party and I want you all present here to join me flush them out. Let them stay out since they have collected money,” Obaseki said.
Speaking earlier, the State Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, disclosed that the campaign council comprised of 363 members, excluding the women and youth wings.
The Director-General of the campaign council, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, in his acceptance speech, thanked the Governor and PDP faithful for the opportunity given him to serve the party.
Iduoriyekemwen, however, promised to lead the party to victory come September.
In his remarks, the PDP governorship candidate, Barr. Asuerinme Ighodalo, who thanked party faithful and leaders for the confidence repose in him, said Obaseki had laid a functional foundation at every sector that he would build upon.