PDP May Collapse in Etsako West

PDP May Collapse in Etsako West , _Duru

 

By: Dada Ayokhai

 

A leader of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, in Etsako West local government area of Edo State ,Alhaji Chief Sule Duru Yesufu, has expressed fears that the party may collapse in the local government if complaints arising from the recently concluded ward congress exercise are not quickly addressed by the party.

In a statement issued in Auchi he said, “as a leader, my position remains very clear. Just do what is right and stop imposing unpopular candidates on the people.

 “As a party in opposition, doing such things now poses a grave danger to the survival of the party in the local government.”

 

Chief Duru alleged that there was a lot of outcry during the ward congress held in the local government when a few miscreants decided to hide away and use Dinghy hotel rooms to write results of congresses that never held in any of the 12 wards in the Local .

He added that while the party members faithfully converged in their wards on that day, it was only INEC observers and DSS officials that came to witness the exercise just as he added that the committee members sent by the party to conduct the congresses were never in any of the wards, “yet we hear they are compiling results beating their chests about hitch-free congresses.

“As a direct fall out, there are now series of petitions before the Congress Appeal Panel sitting in Benin. We hear of moves by some aggrieved party members to approach the courts if the appeal panel fails to do the right thing.

“These are all very dangerous signals for the survival of the party in the area. No serious party that wants to win elections should condone impunities. We had thought that such era was gone but alas, here we are doing the same condemnable things and expecting better results.

“That will not happen. Any political party that is impervious to change is doomed.” From what is going on, PDP needs to be pitied particularly when you know that Etsako West is the home local government area of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the fiery and irrepressible National Chairman of APC”.

It would be recalled that the chairman of Edo State PDP congresses, Governor Seyi Mankinde of Oyo State has insisted that there was no crisis during the ward congresses in the state, saying that it was held throughout the state.