Independent – Jun 16, 2024
According to our sources, the coming days in June and July will witness more defections and possibly more open rejection of Okpebholo, particularly by his Esan brothers and sisters.
One of the sources revealed: “The thing going on in APC now is that many chieftains are angry. The question is how did the party candidate manage to emerge?
“He is the worst of the candidates in the election. People did not know how he managed to emerge or how the leaders did it. Now people are finding it difficult to market him.
“And when they complain, the leaders will say Party is supreme, party is supreme. How can the party be supreme when you have Asue (Dr. Asue Ighodalo of Peoples Democratic Party) or Olu-Dee (Olumide Akpata of Labour Party) to contest with?
“So, that is what is going on. But because the party leaders will not allow them to talk, they have now formed numerous groups and caucuses and they are doing anti-party – many of them.
“The biggest challenge to APC is coming from Esanland. Our people are insisting that after giving Edo people two Professors, Prof Ambrose Alli and Prof Osunbor, they cannot afford to give Edo people a welder by profession.
“That is the issue now. They seem to be saying the man will disgrace Esan people. Unfortunately, it is too late to do anything about it. So, what they are doing is answering APC by day and fully doing PDP or LP at night.
“But not everybody has that time. They simply defect and tell the world what is going on like State Vice Chairman, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, Chief Ghadaffi, who verbally set Arise TV on fire on Friday morning, the former National President of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Alhaji Isiwele of Uromi, Barr. Dan Ogbegie, even the young Turks like John Mayaki and Saint Moses Eromosele, popularly called SME and Chris Osa.
“The list is endless and this is June. By July I don’t know what is going to happen.”
