Forgive us for failing to retrieve your mandate – PDP begs Edo people

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The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Edo State chapter leadership has pleaded with members to pardon them for failing to use the legal system to regain the governorship mandate.

According to ZINGTIE, Tony Aziegbemi, the chairman of the State Caretaker Committee, made the plea at a party stakeholders’ meeting in Benin City on Monday.

Members of the state caretaker committee, leaders from the state’s senatorial districts, and Dr. Asue Ighodalo, the party’s candidate for governor on September 21, 2024, attended the meeting.

Aziegbemi praised party members for their support during the election and the ensuing court struggle to retake the governorship mandate from the All Progressives Congress, or APC, in his welcoming speech.

He stated that the party had taken all necessary steps to obtain the mandate through the legal system.

According to him, “We are here to report to you. Please, forgive us, Edo people, for not being able to retrieve your mandate. We fought and we tried all we could do but we couldn’t.

“We are here to tell you that on your behalf, the candidate, the deputy governorship candidate and the party, we did all what we could do to retrieve our mandate, but unfortunately, the collusion between the presidency, Federal Government, INEC, the security agencies and now the judiciary was a hurdle we could not surmount.

“So, we are here to once again thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all that you did for us. For standing by us. For making sure that we were not alone on this journey because knowing that you were supporting us, that gave us the impetus and the courage to move on to continue.

“We cannot thank you enough. May God, in His infinite mercy, continue to guide, bless and prosper you and your family.

“We submit that the Supreme Court is the last bus stop and there is nothing else we can do about that. So we have to close that chapter and move on to the next thing.”

Before things took an unexpected turn, Aziegbemi also claimed that several APC leaders had started phoning to congratulate him on the party’s election triumph.

“By 8:30 pm of that September 21, 2024, APC leaders were calling to congratulate me for having won the election because they saw what all of us were seeing on the IReV, and then the manipulation started about 9 pm,” he added.

He reiterated that the PDP had been cheated out of the governorship mandate, but he said the party had decided to contest the decision in a way that was consistent with the rule of law.

“The state caretaker committee of PDP in Edo State wants to thank all members for sustaining the course, for being steadfast and for not abandoning us till last Thursday when that travesty of justice was meted on us.

“On September 21, 2024, all of us, everybody and those that cannot make it here, you throng out in your numbers and voted for our party and the candidate Dr Asue Ighodalo.

“Edo people know who they voted for. Edo people know that Asue Ighodalo is the elected governor of Edo State. They stole from us.

“They stole from us, they took and stole our mandate, and because we are law-abiding we say let’s push this case legally,” he alleged.

The party’s candidate for governor, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, thanked the party’s leadership and members for their faith in him before to, during, and following the election.

“I thank the people of Edo State that voted for me, understood what they wanted in government but were forced to accept less than that.

“So my call is, worry not, and fear not, be courageous, it shall be temporary and what God has ordained will definitely come to pass and God knows the appropriate time,” he stated.

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