APC plots to recapture Edo, South-East states

•‘Oshiomhole’s third term plot dead on arrival’
• Edo people don’t watch cable TV, Okpebholo will not feature, Tenebe claims

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, has said that his party would recapture Edo State in the forthcoming September 21, 2024, governorship election.

HOWEVER, a PDP chieftain in the state, Oteghe Adams, has said that Adams Oshiomhole’s plot for an alleged “sinister third term”, through Okpebholo, is dead on arrival.
 
In a statement by the PDP leader yesterday, Oteghe said: “The compromised APC hierarchy is inescapably beset with defeat in the September 21 gubernatorial election, and consequently overwhelmed with consternation and traumatic episodes.
   
“Oshiomhole, in his sinister third term agenda, has seized and crashed both the de facto and de jure functions of ‘party leaders’ and the directorate of the APC governorship campaign council.”

MEANWHILE, featured on an Arise News Morning Show programme yesterday, the Edo APC Chairman, Emperor Tenebe, said that Edo people do not watch the channel, considering that it is meant for the bourgeoisie.
  
The Edo APC Chairman’s submission was coming on the heels of the request by the Arise News Morning Show anchors to have the governorship candidate of the APC, Monday Okpebholo, on the programme.

Tenebe maintained that Governor Godwin Obaseki has run the state aground, noting that the people are hungry, and cannot afford to subscribe to DSTV or GOTV to watch the Arise News. He added that Okpebholo would not come on the programme because Edo people cannot watch him.
  
However, these claims were debunked by one of Arise TV anchors, Rufai Oseni, who pointed out that about 3.99 million people subscribe to the Internet in Edo State.
   
Quoting one of the reactions from a member of Edo’s online audience Dr Reuben Abati, one of the anchors, to Tenebe, he said: “You are embarrassing Edo people. They are civilised, and are very proud people.”