By METROWATCH
Barely seven weeks to the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, several hundreds of quality leaders in the fold of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state have dumped the party.
On the heels of the leaders that have left the party are several thousands of their supporters.
The party has been the traditional political party in Edo State since the return of democracy in 1998, except for the eight-years-period that Senator Adams Oshiomhole held sway in the state as governor.
Even at that, the PDP has been a dominant party winning all federal elections, including the Oshiomhole era.
However, in 2023, the party’s political fortune plummeted, owing largely to the internal strife that has greeted it since 2020 that Governor Obaseki got his 2nd term on the platform of the party.
He was pushed out of his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and ran to the PDP for accommodation. He was accommodated. The rest is history
However, the PDP in the state, as of today, has only one House of Representatives member of the nine from the state and zero senators of the three representing the state at the National Assembly.
As the state prepares for the September 21 election, the party is on a serious fight against itself leading to the invalidation of the process that threw up it’s Governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
The party has, however, appealed against the judgement that quaked his standing position as governorship candidate.
*Click on link below detailing some of those that have left the party.
