The Edo State Government has rejected allegations by the state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, accusing it of engaging in provocative and destructive politics against former Governor Godwin Obaseki.
DAILY POST reports that the PDP had also accused the state government of dismantling Obaseki’s legacy projects, describing the actions as political vendetta disguised as governance.
The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prince Kassim Afegbua, countered the claims in a statement titled “PDP and their Ostentatious Dancers”, describing them as “laughable” and rooted in frustration. He noted that the PDP had no moral basis to criticise the current administration.
Afegbua argued that the party was still grappling with “fragmentation and self-inflicted destruction engineered by Obaseki himself.”
Accusing Obaseki of entering the PDP “like a bull in a China shop,” Afegbua alleged that the former governor fractured the once-united party into splinter groups such as Legacy PDP, New PDP, and Government House PDP after using its platform to secure re-election.
He said: “The lot of the fragmented Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, are still in disarray but the perks from the fugitive former Governor is firing the adrenaline of those ostentatious dancers who have become jesters and coupon clippers back home.
“A factionalised party was surely one of Godwin Obaseki’s achievements; anywhere he enters, like a bull in a China shop, he destroys.
“He met PDP intact when he begged profusely to use the platform in 2020. He was running to and fro Port Harcourt to beg Nyesom Wike to support his quest to use the platform. Once he got the platform and some APC renegades sabotaged the process, he was re-elected.
“He immediately threw Nyesom Wike under the bus, dealt a huge blow to Chief Dan Orbih, who campaigned round the 192 Wards with him, and balkanised the PDP into splinter groups; Legacy PDP, New PDP, Asue PDP, Oredo PDP, Government House PDP, etc.
“That is the character of a man who wants to be taken seriously. Does that not fly in the face of logic, that the same man who is known for his cantankerous behaviour is suddenly shedding crocodile tears over an imaginary threat?
“I read the litany of weather-beaten so-called achievements that one spineless Dan Ogbegie, the factional PDP saxophonist, rolled out. If only they were true reflections of the reality on the ground, Edo would naturally sing the hosannah song.
“But a government that paints its architecture from imaginary conjecture when reality paints a different picture should be ashamed of the relics of failure that stare it in the face.
“Like I said in my previous riposte, each time we intend to unwind, we tune to ‘PDP Comedy Television’ to catch some hilarious sound bites of a party that has quixotically atrophied its opportunities and left the state in ruins.
“PDP’s comedy of errors has its therapeutic balm to satiate the appetite of APC chieftains after a hard day’s work, to laugh off the rigours of work as we try to revamp a state that was crippled by the ‘Obubuyaya’ government of propaganda.
“Their latest saxophonist, Dan Ogbegie, should tell us where the Enterprise Park is located so we can go on some roller-coaster adventure. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, former Vice President, is still wondering how he fell for Obaseki’s pranks when he was invited to flag off Benin Enterprise Park, which has been overgrown with PDP’s weeds,” he alleged.
Afegbua further claimed that, on a daily basis, residents struggle to navigate roads left in disrepair by the Obaseki administration. He questioned why the PDP and its members are not ashamed of such monumental failures, including alleged fraud in the EdoBest education project.
He concluded by asserting that the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led government has begun addressing Edo’s decayed infrastructure, despite protests from some quarters.
Source: Daily Post
