Edo guber: Igbinedion’s daughter, Omosede dumps PDP, set to join APC

Ahead of the September 21 governorship predetermination successful Edo State, Hon. Omosede Igbinedion, a erstwhile national lawmaker who represented Ovia Federal Constituency, has resigned her rank from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

DAILY POST reports that Omosede, the girl of Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin Kingdom, submitted her missive of resignation from the party, which was dated August 11, 2024.

The missive was addressed to Mr. Lucky Edosomwan, the PDP Chairman successful Okada West Ward 1, successful Ovia North East Local Government Area.

She besides copied the party’s president successful Ovia North-East Local Government, the Edo State Chairman of the party, the Acting National Chairman, the State Working Committee, and the National Working Committee of the party.

Omosede was among the aggrieved PDP governorship aspirants who protested against the behaviour of the ward and section authorities delegates elections for the party’s primary.

She represented the enactment successful the National Assembly betwixt 2015 and 2019.

She cited a deficiency of equity, fairness, justice, and the marginalization of long-standing enactment members arsenic reasons for her resignation.

According to her, “I privation to formally usage this mean to tender my resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“Let maine besides prehend this accidental to convey you and the full enactment for the clip spent arsenic a subordinate of the PDP.

“It was a pleasance to person been elected to the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 connected the level of the PDP, to correspond the bully radical of Ovia North-East and Ovia South-West Federal Constituencies.

“Based connected the principles of equity, fairness, and justice, which I clasp dearly and which nary longer prevail wrong our enactment successful the state, coupled with the marginalization of the aboriginal PDP members who person worked assiduously to prolong this enactment earlier its infiltration, contempt complaints to some the authorities and nationalist levels, I nary longer person the drive, conviction, sentiment, and committedness towards a enactment that I erstwhile called my own.

“There is nary indigenous PDP subordinate connected the Edo gubernatorial ballot today, either arsenic the gubernatorial campaigner oregon lawman governorship moving mate, which raises the question: ‘Who precisely are we moving for?’

“My overriding involvement and committedness to the radical of Ovia, whom I clasp truthful dearly and who person ever stood by me, supersedes my idiosyncratic involvement arsenic good arsenic immoderate different interest.

“It is connected this enactment that I person decided to tender my resignation from the PDP, effectual from today, August 11, 2024,” she said.

DAILY POST, however, learned that she would beryllium defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) astatine the flag-off of the Edo South Senatorial governorship run rally scheduled for contiguous (August 13) astatine the Ekehuan field of the University of Benin (UNIBEN).

Edo guber: Igbinedion’s daughter, Omosede dumps PDP, acceptable to articulation APC