Edo PDP Loses Sole Councillor To APC — January 16, 2014 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State yesterday suffered a major setback as its sole councillor, Mr Peter Akhugie, representing Ogbona, Ward 4, in Etsako Central local government area, the ward of Chief Dan Orbih, the party’s chairman in the state, defected with over 200 of his supporters to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ward 4 in Ogbona was the only ward out of the ten in the council area won by the PDP in the April 20, 2013 local government election in the area. Receiving the defectors yesterday, Governor Adams Oshiomhole said his government would continue to extend development to every nook and cranny of the state irrespective of political divide. He promised the people of Ogbona that the state government would immediately deploy the Rapid Response Agency to sink a second borehole in the community to be reticulated to various quarters and homes. He said, “I have come not only to welcome Peter into our fold, this local government is now 10/10 exactly the same way it is 18/18 in Edo State after my election. And that to recognise that our strength is not in empty rhetoric, making promises that we will not keep, I have come to assure the people of Ogbona that we have done one borehole before, we will do another one. The weapon we have against the PDP is our developmental efforts and they have no answer to it. Each time they plan at night but in the day time God will destroy their plots. ‘’When you were not with us, we did a borehole and now that you are with us, we will do more. We will continue to build and rehabilitate more schools because education is the foundation for our tomorrow. We will make our schools the most beautiful and attractive. In the past, only the children of the rich attended beautiful schools.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:28:58 +0000