Tinubu: We have only one agenda for 2027 – Edo PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State branch said Monday that preventing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being re-elected in 2027 is on its agenda for the upcoming election cycle.

According to ZINGTIE, Tony Aziegbemi, the party’s State Caretaker Committee Chairman, said this at a meeting of party members, leaders, stakeholders, and important supporters that was held in Benin City.

Speaking about the Supreme Court’s ruling last Thursday that upheld the election of Senator Monday Okpebholo as the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) candidate for governor on September 21, 2024, Aziegbemi said the party must come together to prevent President Tinubu from returning to Aso Rock.

According to him, “The next thing I am urging everyone of us on behalf of PDP in Edo State is how to get Tinubu out of presidency in 2027. That is our next target.

“They have ruined the economy of this nation and the next thing is to make sure that he is removed from power in 2027. That is the mandate we are charging you going forward.

“The next task and agenda is to remove Tinubu from the presidency because we cannot continue with this suffering, we cannot continue with the way things are being run aground in this country.

“So, we charge you not to be deterred. Don’t worry yourself, God in His infinite mercy will give all of us the strength and the will to go through this because hard times don’t last, but tough people do.”

Barrister Jimoh Ijegbai, a former Commissioner for Education and Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki, stated that the crisis-plagued PDP would make it difficult to remove President Tinubu from office in 2027.

At the state and national levels, Ijegbai, who was also the previous elected Chairman of the Owan East Local Government Area, cautioned members against acting as though everything is fine within the party.

“Our chairman has spoken well. Our chairman is telling us to prepare to take President Tinubu out of government. I don’t know which vehicle you are expecting us to use to remove the President from office. We will be deceiving ourselves to still think that we have a party that we are going to use as of today. A house that is divided against itself cannot hold.

“You have called for nominations from Edo Central and Edo South for the Senatorial and House of Representatives by-election. Already the other factions of the party are announcing their own candidates. Are we going to start a round of litigation right from the High Court down to the Supreme Court? I don’t think we should go that road again.

“So, I want to urge the party, our leaders, to look at it very critically. We are not ready to start following that road again of litigation.

“If we must continue to participate, we must clearly know where we belong in the PDP. Unless and except we do that and we start calling ourselves together to think that we have a party called PDP, I think we are deceiving ourselves.

“The earlier we look at it critically, and everybody is carried along and we take a joint decision on how we are going to go in Edo, then we are not ready for anything.

“We should not pretend about it. And let nobody deceive us to think that we will continue waiting for the National Convention of PDP; it will not achieve anything for us,” he stated.

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