Edo PDP crisis deepens as Dan Orbih faction commissions secretariat

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With the commissioning of a factional secretariat in Benin City by the party’s Legacy Group, led by Chief Dan Orbih, the turmoil engulfing the PDP’s Edo State chapter has gotten worse.

Orbih is the Chairman of the Governing Council of Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, and the National Vice Chairman, South-South, of the party, according to ZINGTIE.

Orbih stated that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had forced the party out of its secretariat, which led to the decision to obtain a new one.

He claims that since January 2025, the party has been without a place to live.

He went on to say that the commissioning was a fulfillment of his pledge to the members to provide them with a suitable secretariat.

“A few weeks ago, I made a promise in one of our meetings that I was going to donate a Secretariat to the Party. So today, we can go back home and say it was a promise made and a promise fulfilled.

“PDP cannot be a homeless party. On January 17, 2025, our former chairman was chased out from our office along Airport Road.

“And from January to this very day, Edo PDP has no state Secretariat. It has been homeless.

“Today, we celebrate the triumphant opening of the PDP state Secretariat to put an end to it being referred to as a homeless party,” he added.

Orbih took use of the opportunity to urge Edo PDP Caretaker Committee members to cease making statements on the party’s behalf.

He asserted that the state’s Caretaker Committee is not included in the party constitution and that its members are no longer able to speak for the PDP because they worked with the former governor to crush the party.

“I looked back and I feel sad that this is where we are today as a party. A party that once had two serving senators and the majority of the members of the House of Representatives.

“Today, we have no senator; we have only one member in the House of Representatives. And even the governorship is gone to APC.

“I want to state here in my capacity as the National Vice Chairman, South South of the PDP those people parading themselves as members of the Edo PDP Caretaker Committee have no stand in PDP.

“From today, we will stop entertaining any statements aside from those who will manage the party from today in Edo State. It is time for us to rebuild, reconstruct, and reposition PDP,” he added.

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