Don’t Trust Edo Governor to Deliver Votes to You in 2027, PDP Warms President Tinubu

By Towncriernews

The Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned Presidential Bola Tinubu not to be carried away with the promise of delivering millions of votes to him by Governor Monday Okpebholo, it was all said to hoodwink the president.

Okpebholo during the Flag-off of the expansion of 125km Benin Asaba Dual carriageway, on Sunday, had assured President Tinubu that Edo people will take his re-election in 2027 as a big deal.

The governor who represented the president on the occasion said “All the local governments will be delivered for Mr President come 2027 because he has shown the difference. We once had president from this region that never remembered us. Edo is a gateway to the nation and when the roads are bad, the economy of the State will be bad as well.

But in a statement on Tuesday by the Publicity Secretary, Caretaker Committee of the party, Chris Nehikhare, warned the president of taking such bogus promise.

He described the statement by Governor Okpebholo as the latest scheme by and the leadership of the APC in Edo State to hoodwink the with a fraudulent promise to deliver all 18 local government areas and two million votes for him in the forthcoming 2027 Presidential Election.

According to him, it is noteworthy that during these past elections, many of which occurred before electoral reforms that introduced digital systems like biometrics, the number of accredited voters in Edo State never exceeded 700,000 

“These are all tricks by Okpebholo and APC, and thankfully,  the people of Edo can see through their façade. It is a fraudulent plan designed to deceive the President and exert undue pressure on the tribunal judges to uphold the flawed and manipulated 2024 governorship election that brought Okpebholo into office”, the Edo PDP scribe alleged.

Furthermore, “In his own election with all the irregularities and fraudulent practices enabled by INEC, Senator Okpebholo barely won in 11 of the 18 LGAs and he case is in the tribunal waiting for judgement. 

“It is also important to state, without fear of contradiction, that there are not up to two million votes in Edo. At no time in history has Edo State recorded 2 million votes in any election, whether presidential or gubernatorial, which is typically an off-cycle election.

“For the record, Edo State has never recorded more than 700,000 votes in any election. These same political swindlers making these bogus promises could not even garner 300,000 votes in the last gubernatorial election that brought them to office—an election whose outcome is still keenly contested in court—yet they claim they will miraculously deliver ten times that number. What could be more comic, ridiculous and reprehensible?

“If President Tinubu hopes to win Edo State, he should not rely on Okpebholo and the APC leadership in the state. They clearly lack the capacity to deliver Edo to him, and he would be better served by looking elsewhere because the APC in Edo State thrives on lies, deceit, and propaganda.

“However, we trust that President Tinubu is politically astute and fully aware of their incompetence. He will not rely on them for his victory in the forthcoming 2027 presidential election.”