The Edo State Authorities has rejected allegations by the state chapter of the Folks’s Democratic Celebration, PDP, accusing it of participating in provocative and destructive politics against former Governor Godwin Obaseki.
DAILY POST reviews that the PDP had additionally accused the state authorities of dismantling Obaseki’s legacy tasks, describing the actions as political vendetta disguised as governance.
The State Commissioner for Info and Technique, Prince Kassim Afegbua, countered the claims in a press release titled “PDP and their Ostentatious Dancers”, describing them as “laughable” and rooted in frustration. He famous that the PDP had no ethical foundation to criticise the present administration.
Afegbua argued that the celebration was nonetheless grappling with “fragmentation and self-inflicted destruction engineered by Obaseki himself.”
Accusing Obaseki of getting into the PDP “like a bull in a China store,” Afegbua alleged that the previous governor fractured the once-united celebration into splinter teams comparable to Legacy PDP, New PDP, and Authorities Home PDP after utilizing its platform to safe re-election.
He stated: “The lot of the fragmented Peoples’ Democratic Celebration, PDP, are nonetheless in disarray however the perks from the fugitive former Governor is firing the adrenaline of these ostentatious dancers who’ve grow to be jesters and coupon clippers again residence.
“A factionalised celebration was absolutely one of Godwin Obaseki’s achievements; wherever he enters, like a bull in a China store, he destroys.
“He met PDP intact when he begged profusely to make use of the platform in 2020. He was operating backward and forward Port Harcourt to beg Nyesom Wike to assist his quest to make use of the platform. As soon as he acquired the platform and a few APC renegades sabotaged the method, he was re-elected.
“He instantly threw Nyesom Wike below the bus, dealt an enormous blow to Chief Dan Orbih, who campaigned around the 192 Wards with him, and balkanised the PDP into splinter teams; Legacy PDP, New PDP, Asue PDP, Oredo PDP, Authorities Home PDP, and many others.
“That’s the character of a person who desires to be taken significantly. Does that not fly within the face of logic, that the identical man who is understood for his cantankerous behaviour is all of a sudden shedding crocodile tears over an imaginary risk?
“I learn the litany of weather-beaten so-called achievements that one spineless Dan Ogbegie, the factional PDP saxophonist, rolled out. If solely they had been true reflections of the truth on the bottom, Edo would naturally sing the hosannah track.
“However a authorities that paints its structure from imaginary conjecture when actuality paints a distinct image ought to be ashamed of the relics of failure that stare it within the face.
“Like I stated in my earlier riposte, every time we intend to unwind, we tune to ‘PDP Comedy Tv’ to catch some hilarious sound bites of a celebration that has quixotically atrophied its alternatives and left the state in ruins.
“PDP’s comedy of errors has its therapeutic balm to satiate the urge for food of APC chieftains after a tough day’s work, to snort off the rigours of work as we attempt to revamp a state that was crippled by the ‘Obubuyaya’ authorities of propaganda.
“Their newest saxophonist, Dan Ogbegie, ought to inform us the place the Enterprise Park is situated so we will go on some roller-coaster journey. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, former Vice President, remains to be questioning how he fell for Obaseki’s pranks when he was invited to flag off Benin Enterprise Park, which has been overgrown with PDP’s weeds,” he alleged.
Afegbua additional claimed that, each day, residents wrestle to navigate roads left in disrepair by the Obaseki administration. He questioned why the PDP and its members usually are not ashamed of such monumental failures, together with alleged fraud within the EdoBest schooling undertaking.
He concluded by asserting that the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led authorities has begun addressing Edo’s decayed infrastructure, regardless of protests from some quarters.
