Edo 2020: PDP Raises Alarm As Security Agents ‘Invade’ Governors’ Lodge In Benin
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over alleged invasion of hotels being occupied by its governors ahead of the Edo governorship election taking place tomorrow, September 19.
Speaking in a statement by its national spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP alleged that security agents were laying siege to a hotel where its governors were lodging at in Benin, the Edo State capital.
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Ologbondiyan said the party was in, “shock that security agents were detailed to surround the lodging of our governors to harass and intimidate them, whereas APC governors, including the governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje, his Imo state counterpart, Hope Uzodimma as well as the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, are left free in the comfort of the residence of the sacked national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole in GRA, Benin City.
“Our party considers this siege as provocative and completely unacceptable as there cannot be two sets of laws for the citizens of our nation. In as much as the APC governors are given the liberty to stay in Benin City, our governors must not be harassed or stampeded to leave the state,” he said.
The PDP said alleged efforts to restrain its governors from monitoring the election process would be resisted.
It urged security agencies deployed to Edo, “to work towards a peaceful, credible, transparent, free and fair election” and not allow themselves to be used to obstruct the process.
