*Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and one of his new PDP campaign posters
“I am prepared to provide leadership that will lead this party (Peoples Democratic Party – PDP) to victory and I am prepared to provide leadership that will not only put PDP in office in Edo State, but as the ruling party in Edo State, we will make sure that the level of progress, the level of hope and the level of participation in the political system by our party is unrivalled in this country,”
There were the pronouncements of Governor Godwin Obaseki, the incumbent Edo State governor who at the weekend decamped to the PDP following his screening out of the primaries by his old party, the All Progressive Congress (APC). The governor said his joining the PDP has also signaled a new dawn in the state when he said, “I am very happy to be here, the reception I have received since I drove in here has been ecstatic, the energy I see in this party is the kind of energy I require to take Edo to the level we should go to next.
“So, if indeed we have done anything in the last four years, you haven’t seen anything yet because with the quality of people I see here, the energy of the youths I see, by the grace of God victory will be possible. I am committing to you that I will not only lead this party to victory in Edo State, but we will now make sure that this party establishes an example of how states will be run in Africa. So, today, it is with great pleasure that I have come to formally take up my membership of this great party,” Obaseki added.
Obaseki of Edo State on Friday after much nationwide consultation joined the PDP promising that he would bring the party to winning ways. He was received by members of the State Executive of the PDP led by the state chairman, Hon Tony Azegbenmi, the Vice-Chairman South-South of the PDP, Chief Emmanuel Ogidi and several other happy leaders of the PDP in the state.
It was however good news for the PDP all through because shortly after Obaseki’s departure, his deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu, also visited the secretariat to perform the same ceremony.
