PDP’ll fail woefully in Edo, says Benin High Chief

A Benin High Chief and second-in-command among the palace chiefs in Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no future in Edo State and that the party would fail woefully in the 2015 general election and 2016 governorship election in the state.
Edebiri, who is the Esogban and Odionwere of Benin Kingdom, a seasoned politician and ally of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, accused the Federal Government of having a hand in the political crisis and security challenges in the state.
On his part, Governor Adams Oshiomhole blamed the new wave of politically-motivated violence in the state on some people who decamped from the APC to the PDP, saying it was their way to get noticed and gain relevance in their new party, since they have no new values to add
According to the Esogban, who represented the Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba Erediauwa but chose to speak in his personal capacity as the Esogban and Odionwere of Benin Kingdom, at a town hall meeting organised by Oshiomhole to address pressing security issues in the state, the recent crisis was a re-enactment of the saga in the Old Western Region.
He asked the PDP to field some of its members who recently decamped from the APC in the coming elections and see how woefully the party would lose.
He said: “What we were about to witness in Edo State was a re-enactment of the political scenario in the old Western Region from 1962 to 1964, whereby the Central Government caused a division in the old Action Group and supported the minority, late Chief SLA Akintola, who was our deputy leader then, to fight against Chief Obafemi Awolowo because they wanted to take the Western Region by all means.
“That was the type of scenario they wanted to create here but for the wise counsel of the governor and members of our legislative assembly. Now that they have failed, I’m sure they have failed in that endeavour.”