Edo Election: PDP, APC flaunts Oba of Benin’s warning as supporters clash again

The All Progressive Congress (APC) youth leaders in Ewu, Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, alleged to have narrowly escaped death, DAILY TIMES gathered.

They claimed to have been attacked by thugs hired by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while youths were pasting posters of the APC candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the community in preparation for the ward to ward rally.

The party pinned the attack on chairman of Esan LGA, Hon Waziri Edokpa.

Leader, Ewu youth APC Campaign Council and former Special Adviser to the Council Chairman, Hon Clement Inegben, alleged that around 8pm on Friday, he was summoned to appear at Ewu Police Station only to be attacked as he got to the Station.

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Another youth, identified as Aguni, said they were erecting mini billboards when PDP supporters descended on them with dangerous weapons. He also said that the Council Chairman had formed the habit of harassing those who have refused to accompany him to PDP. He, therefore called on authorities and the public to rescue them from him.

Meanwhile, reacting to the development, Ize-Iyamu enjoined the youths to maintain their peaceful disposition, which they had adopted from the beginning of the Campaign.

He, however, expressed disappointment that after the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, had extracted commitments from leaders of all political groups and other stakeholders to maintain peace throughout the period of the election, the PDP still stuck to the use of violence.

Other APC Leaders in Ewu, including a former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon David Iyoha, and a former commissioner, Hon Larry Aghedo, prevailed on the youths to stick nobly to peace and tranquillity