By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has called on the Archbishop of the Benin Metropolitan See of the Catholic Church Archdiocese, Most Rev Augustine Akubeze, to intervene in the face-off between Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and his deputy, Dr. Pius Odubu, by calling them to order.

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The party said the allegation by Governor Oshiomhole that his deputy wanted to kill him amounted to blackmail, describing same as a ploy to defend the lack of coordination between the governor and his deputy.

State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, made the appeal to the Archbishop while receiving a governorship aspirant of the party, Chief Solomon Edebiri, who was at the party secretariat to inform the State Working Committee of PDP of his intention to vie for the governorsip position of the state as well as to begin a tour of the local governments in the state.

He asked why Governor Oshiomhole reasoned that his deputy wanted him dead at the twilight of his administration, when the deputy would have benefitted more if this was done at the beginning of their tenure.

Orbih noted that it was a common knowledge that the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state after Oshiomhole’s administration was a poisoned chalice.

He regretted that the governor and his deputy had reduced governance to fetish issues, asking the duo to exorcise themselves of their fetish tendencies and face the challenge of providing leadership and good governance to Edo people during their remaining term in office.

He described the behaviours of the governor and his deputy, who are both Catholic, as unbecoming of Catholics, and called on Catholic clergies, especially the Benin Archbishop, Most Reverend Akubeze, to stop the duo from bringing further dishonour to the church and governance.