Edo guber poll: APC not behind PDP crisis – Oshiomhole

• The court nullified the primary election conducted on February 22, 2024, because 378 delegates were unlawfully excluded by PDP

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has says the All Progressives Congress, APC, has no hand in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over primary election for the state’s governorship.

An Abuja Federal High Court had on Thursday invalidated the PDP’s primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as the party’s governorship candidate in the State, citing irregularities.

The court nullified the primary election conducted on February 22, 2024, because 378 delegates were unlawfully excluded by PDP.

However, Oshiomhole speaking with journalists yesterday in Abuja, said Oshiomhole the law does not allow APC to dabble into PDP’s internal affairs which the primary election conflict is.

He stated that everyone was aware of the internal wrangling that the PDP was embroiled in before, during and after the party’s primary election.

He said: “This is purely PDP intra-party, and I think the lesson is very clear, namely that parties must be encouraged to obey the laws that regulate the conduct of primaries.

“By the law, another party cannot go into intra-party conflicts in court.

“I think you should dismiss that because this is PDP versus PDP and you know that by the law, another party cannot go into intra-party conflicts in court. So if it is convenient for them to explain that you can dismiss it without asking me.

“The fact that there had been division in Edo before their primaries and after their primaries is an open secret, and the issues in dispute are also very open.

“The PDP legacy group complained that the man they gave their master bedroom has completely chased them out of the building and now they’re under the rain and as we speak they are still trying to settle.”