By Simon Ebegbulem

Last Tuesday’s removal of Mr. Victor Edoror as  Speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly is brewing a fresh crisis in the APC with the potential of damaging the party’s focus in the Edo Central Senatorial district ahead of the election.

Indeed, some leaders of the party in the district have threatened to pull out of the party to the PDP if Edoror is not reinstated.

Edo State House of Assembly

Meanwhile, the impeached Speaker has been begging his colleagues to forgive him with the plea that he is ready to turn a new leaf if reinstated.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole also has been pleading with the lawmakers who elected Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie as new Speaker, to sheathe their sword and give the ex-speaker another chance.

The anger of the Esan APC leaders is that the office of speaker was zoned to the district and Edoror’s removal has denied them a form of identity in government.

The only other position of reckoning available to them is the position of party chairman held by Anslem Ojezua which they claim cannot be compared to the post of Speaker.