Edo PDP, APC bicker over alleged N18bn loan by state govt
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By Ozioruva Aliu
EDO state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, were yesterday locked in a war of words over alleged plot by the state government to secure N18 billion loan.
The former chairman, Media of APC Campaign Council of the 2020 governorship election in the state, John Mayaki, had issued a statement accusing Governor Godwin Obaseki of seeking N18 billion loan to further increase the state’s debt profile.
But Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chris Nehikhare, in a statement issued yesterday, described Mayaki as the goon of the former National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who he alleged got Mayaki to issue the statement.
Edo APC writes off former chairman’s defection claims
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By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin-City
Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday described claims by a former charman of the party, Anselm Ojezua that he was leaving the party with 150,000 members as spurious and unfounded.
A statement yesterday by the State Assistant Publicity Secretary of the APC, Ofure Osehobor said Ojezua had long left the party but that he was not popular enough to gather such a number of supporters being claimed.
He said “This is deliberate falsehood because Edo people know that this man has no such followership. Moreover he left the party long before now. What is sad is that instead of staying quietly in his new party, he has chosen to embarrass himself with these claims.