Edo 2024: PDP condemns abduction of officials in Etsako central

• Applauds peaceful conduct of ward delegates congress
• Party cancels election in Etsako 

Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, commended the National Working Committee (NWC) and other stakeholders for the peaceful and credible conduct of the ward delegates’ election to elect three ad-hoc delegates across the 18 local councils and 192 wards of the state.
  
Briefing newsmen in Benin, State PDP Chairman, Tony Aziegbemi, flanked by Anthony Anenih, State Organising Secretary, Edo PDP, said the exercise was mostly peaceful across the state with only one incident at Jattu, the hometown of the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, where eight of the officials heading to Etsako Central for the election were abducted.
  

MEANWHILE, the Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Anthony Aziegbemi, yesterday, explained that the state’s three-man ad-hoc ward delegate electoral committee, led by Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, canceled results from Etsako Central Local Council, because election did not hold in the council, as nine electoral officers were kidnapped at Jattu on their way to the council.

Aziegbemi disclosed this while briefing journalists in Benin City on the success of the election across the state, describing it as the best ever conducted in Nigeria since 1999.
   
He said: “The congresses went on well. It was peaceful, fair and credible, but with one incident that led to the committee canceling the exercise from Etsako Central.
   
“Nine electoral officers were kidnapped around Jattu on their way to Etsako Central Council of the Edo State in the morning of the exercise. As at the time we were closing the congress, yesterday, the whereabouts of these men were not known.”