BENIN CITY – THE Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the replacement of late Samson Abu as a member of the South-South Zonal Executive of the party saying that the action ws taken without recourse to the leadership of the party in the state and the leader of the party, Gov Godwin Obaseki.
A letter by the state chairman of the party, Hon Tony Aziegbemi to the Acting National Chairman of the party, Amb. Umar Damagum and dated October 13 2023 which copy was sighted by journalists in Benin City on Monday described the action as a “very disturbing development that is capable of bringing our party in the State to ridicule.”
He said the party was yet to recover from the shock of the death of Abu and was still planning to put in place a welfare package for his family with support from Obaseki when they got the information that the Zonal Executive Committee has announced a replacement “for the position without recourse to the State Executive Committee, the State Working Committee nor the Leader of the Party, His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki.