BENIN CITY—AS campaigns for the 2016 governorship election in Edo State intensifies, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Mr Mathew Emhiohe, has lamented what he described as the disunity among leaders of the APC in Edo Central senatorial district and appealed to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to find a solution to the problem so as to save the party from defeat next year.

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According to him, the APC needs a leader in Edo Central, one who will serve as a rallying point for members of the party, “Just like the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has Chief Tony Anenih in Edo Central, we lack that sort of coordination and that is affecting the APC in Edo Central.”

Emhiohe who addressed journalists in Irrua, Edo State, said: “My worry is that APC in Edo Central is seriously divided, we are not as united as we were during the past elections. What I fear is going to kill us in the district is the division and disunity among leaders of the party. We have many factions, you cannot get a leader to call a meeting where every other leader will honour and attend.

“The only leader that can summon a meeting of APC leaders in Esan land is only the governor, Oshiomhole, but he is not an Esan man, and cannot be an Esan leader. I see former Governor Osarhiemen Osunbor as someone who can bring everybody together and serve as a rallying point.  But I understand he is nursing a governorship ambition, if not he would have played that role better.

“We need somebody of the calibre of Chief Anenih. Any patriotic Esan man will be happy to have the next governor come from the district but right now, it is not going to work because we need the kind of leadership that will lead us and be a rallying point.”