Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of state assembly election slated for weekend have resorted to blackmail, intimidation and bullying market women to vote the APC describing such
as ‘ wicked and devilish’ .
The party said the APC is terrified and still in shock over its loss of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state and therefore resort to underhand tactics by compelling market women to
embark on staged managed “ Apology March” to Obaseki in Government House on Tuesday.
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But in a swift reaction to PDP’s allegations yesterday, the Special Adviser to Governor Obaseki, on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said the PDP and its handlers are suffering from horrific hallucination.
“It takes someone suffering from horrific hallucination to imagine that the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration that has prioritised the wellbeing of our industrious market women and other business owners, through several reforms of trade practices in the state, would hurt their interest.
“It is still lost on PDP that they lost the war in the presidential and national assembly elections held on Saturday February 23.
“They have depended on lies for decades as a strategy for accessing power and swindling people’s mandates, but Edo people and Nigerians now know them for what they truly are, mandate swindlers!
“Just like the several lies and falsehoods which Chris Nehikhare is notorious for propagating, the allegation of threat to market women is completely false, and the creation of Edo PDP.”
