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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Edo State, Emmanuel Odigie, has stated that the party never said it would not sign the peace accord.
He explained that the PDP simply gave a condition before signing the peace pact.
According to Odigie, the party demanded that the special forces in the state must be withdrawn ahead of the September 21 election.
The PDP chieftain stated this on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief, on Monday.
He said, “The PDP has made demands, they never said they won’t sign. All they want is for the Special Forces to be withdrawn out of Edo. We already have a very effective state police command, so why bring in these Special Forces to Edo to harass people?”
He maintained that the PDP would be ready to sign the peace accord if the federal government could meet the party’s demand.
On why he left the APC for the PDP, Odigie claimed that he resigned his membership of the APC due to the lack of internal democracy and imposition of “the most incompetent candidate” on the people of Edo State.
He went ahead to defend Governor Godwin Obaseki’s statement that the election is a do-or-die affair, explaining that if the people do not vote, they will die of hunger, and so the governor was only saying that if people do not vote, they will die of starvation.
