PDP concludes campaign, vows to win guber polls

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, yesterday rounded off its campaign at the local council level for the governorship election slated for September 10.

At the rally held at Okada, headquarters of Ovia North East Local Council Area, the party promised that its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu would defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ize-Iyamu sympathised with local council workers over the non-payment of their salaries, assuring them that resolving the issue of salary arrears would be his major task if voted to power.

He asked: “How did Governor Adams Oshiomhole spend the $225 million loan he took from the World Bank, which he said would be used to enhance investments and increase the internally generated revenue of the state?

“How can the governor justify the N18m he pays to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Channels Television for the live coverage of the APC rallies when workers are being owned salaries.”

The PDP standard-bearer also expressed concern that the governor was giving N18million to each local council to hire crowd at the rallies, when the welfare of government workers has been relegated.

The lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency, Omosede Igbinedion, alleged that the state government deliberately obstructed her efforts to develop her constituency.

Minority leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor, led some of his colleagues in the state assembly to the rally, where some APC members defected to the PDP.