A group under the aegis of Oredo Political Front (OPF), has a two-time member of the House Representatives, Hon. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, to join the 2024 Edo State Governorship race.
The group made the call through a stake signed by one Ken Ekpe and made available to journalists on Wednesday in Benin City.
The OPF said that while it understood the pressure that was brought on Ogbeide-Ihama to abandon his governorship pursuit in 2020, it said that the lawmaker owes it a duty to the people to salvage the state from the mess allegedly brought in by Godwin Obaseki’s administration.
The group alleged that Ogbeide-Ihama was on the verge of obtaining the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2020 before the party’s governors and the national leadership foisted Obaseki on Edo PDP mainly on the argument that he was an incumbent governor.
“We have all learnt our lessons from 2020 and we will not want to look back. Our party has been devastated by the Obaseki regime and his credentials in office are not what we are looking forward to as PDP to campaign with.
“It is for this reason that we are calling on Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama to pick us up from where he abandoned us with Obaseki four years ago.
“We know it was not his fault and that he was under intense pressure from PDP governors to give the ticket to Obaseki.
“Even the PDP governors and the National Leadership have seen where that error took us to and seen that for the first time in history the PDP lost the Presidential election in Edo State and the National Assembly elections.
“That was even when we had a so-called PDP governor in place.It is for this reason that we are calling on Ogbeide-Ihama to pick up the gauntlet as he remains the most credible of those around to mobilise the PDP to victory in the main election.”
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