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Edo Elections: Amid Alleged Police Intimidation, PDP Governors Vow Not To Leave Benin City

Edo Elections: Amid Alleged Police Intimidation, PDP Governors Vow Not To Leave Benin City
Edo Elections: Amid Alleged Police Intimidation, PDP Governors Vow Not To Leave Benin City


Governors elected on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform have vowed not to leave Edo State despite alleged harassment by the police.


During an emergency press conference in Abuja on Saturday, Prince Uche Secondus, the national chairman of the PDP, accused security agencies of intimidating and threatening the lives of their governors who had gathered in Benin City, the capital of the state, ahead of a poll on Saturday.


This comes in the midst of reports by Akawor Desmond, chairman of the party in Rivers State, that more than 300 police laid siege to the hotel where Governor Nyesom Wike was staying.

Second, he expressed shock that, "security agents have been detailed to surround our governors' lodging to threaten and intimidate them."


He questioned why the governors of the APC, "including the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje; his counterpart to the Imo State, Hope Uzodima, as well as the Senate Deputy President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, are left free in the comfort of the GRA, Comrade Oshiomhole's Benin residence.

The PDP insisted "There can't be two sets of rules for our nation's people.


"Because the governors of the APC are granted the freedom to remain in Benin City, our governors will not allow themselves to be harassed or stamped to leave the State."

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