Ahead of the 2024 governorship election in Edo State, a new group within the state controlled PDP, led by the Vice Chairman, South-south of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, has vowed to produce the party’s candidate for the election.
The group said it would resist any plan by Governor Godwin Obaseki to “impose” his preferred person as the candidate of the party.
A leader of the party, who attended the meeting held at the residence of Chief Orbih, disclosed yesterday that the group called Legacy Coalition is made up of old members of the party before Obaseki joined in 2020.
He said the Legacy Group is made up of members of the party led by Orbih and some founding members of the party who had left earlier and those who came to the PDP with the governor from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“We have realised that we have challenges in our state, we have also realised that we have our destiny in our hands. The governor that will emerge through your support will be a governor that will not ask you to introduce yourself before he will recognise you. We are going to have a governor that has been part of us and will remain part of us, a governor that will realize the challenges we are facing as a state.
“One of the reasons why I am no longer as frequent as I used to be in Benin City is that each time I look at what we are facing today, I bleed in my heart. Here was a PDP that was united in love before the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He joined us and divided the party. But today, with the faces of those present here, I am convinced more than ever before that the way forward for PDP to retain power is to elect one among this group who will be the next governor of Edo State.”
