Frontline governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming election in Edo state, Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama has said he instituted the lawsuit against the party to prevent impending disaster following the way Governor Obaseki was being imposed on party stakeholders by the national leadership ahead of the primaries scheduled for Thursday, June 25. Ogebide-Ihama in his address to members of the PDP and the people of Edo state on Wednesday stressed that as painful as it was “it is the quickest and most necessary thing to do at this time to save our party from an impending disaster.”

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He said the injunction was about the flawed process that was adopted to put the governor on the ballot for the primaries. Recall that Governor Obaseki joined the PDP last week after he was denied the chance to seek reelection in the All Progressives Congress (APC) under which he had ruled Edo state for the past four years. Ogbeide-Ihama noted that as a loyal and committed member of the party he had laboured to build a vibrant, peaceful and stable structure and would not sit back and allow a situation where certain leaders in the party would plot to stop his ambition of becoming governor of the state by trying to impose Obaseki as the party’s flag bearer against the will of the stakeholders in an illegal and unjust manner. “Before I embarked on this project to serve our state in executive capacity over a year ago, I consulted extensively with leaders within and outside our party, and with the assurances and promise of support I got, we embarked on the tedious and demanding process of reaching out and building relationships and alliances with our members across the 18 local Governments of the state. “This year-long exercise culminated with another ‘meet-the-delegates tour’ across the state last week, after which we came back to prepare for primaries. Suddenly the brewing plan by certain ‘leaders’ in our party who for certain reasons had decided they were going to stop my ambition by all means shockingly materialized with their bringing the Governor into the party on the same day we were to have primaries they had influenced to be postponed

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