By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  has condemned the recent increase in school fees and total neglect of Ambrose Alli University, AAU,  Ekpoma by Edo State Government, saying the situation amounted to the marginalization of the people of the constituency and a calculated attempt to relegate them to second class citizens in the state.

Orbih, PDP chairman Edo

State chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, who addressed PDP faithful in Esan West Local Government Area, at Ekpoma, yesterday, in continuation of the party’s “Meet the People  Tour,“ regretted that whereas Edo University, Iyamoh has received up to N18 billion in the last three years, AAU has received less than five percent of that.

He queried the status of the university in Iyamoh and the amorous relationship it has with Afri-Invest, a company allegedly owned by the then Chairman of the state economic team and now governor of Edo State.

The PDP chairman, while condemning the stoppage of work on Ekpoma township roads by the government, advised Governor Godwin Obaseki to look inwards and  not punish the people of  Ekpoma.

Chief Orbih, who sympathized with the people on the poor presence of government infrastructure in the council, assured that when PDP takes over power in Edo State and Nigeria, the people will have cause to smile again.

On his part, the PDP governorship candidate in the last election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, thanked the people for their support and advised all aggrieved parties to sheathe their swords and work together for the benefit of Nigerians, who are determined to vote out APC, describing it as a serial promise breaker that cannot be trusted.

Ize-Iyamu likened the ascendancy of APC to governance to the man (Nigerians) who married a second wife (APC) because they said his first wife (PDP) was not pretty enough. After marriage to “the beautiful” new wife, the husband discovered that his new bride is a bed wetter, lies, steals and cannot cook.

He appealed to party members to be open to receive people who though where members but decamped to APC, many of them are on their way back, he revealed.

He emphasizes that the next election was bigger than PDP versus APC, adding that, “It’s about Nigerians Vs APC” and  quoted Chief Blessing Agbohmere  who warned and rightly too, “that if Nigerians don’t kill APC, APC will kill Nigeria.”