APC Leaders Claim Obaseki, PDP Panic Over Imminent Defeat.

Ahead of the Edo State governorship election, some All Progressives Congress leaders have claimed that, the action of Governor Godwin Obaseki and other leaders of the People’s Democratic Party, lately showed a panic mood in their camp.

The leaders, in a statement, accused Governor Obaseki, the People’s Democratic Party, in the state and its candidate, AsueIghodalo, of sponsoring campaign of calumny against the governorship candidate of APC, Senator Monday Okpebholo.

The leaders, who are members of the APC Vanguard, said the PDP, Obaseki and Ighodalo have suddenly become desperate, over fears that they will suffer a humiliating defeat in the upcoming governorship polls.

This is coming after a group, Network of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria, recently held a press conference and also petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, among others, over claims that Okpebholo sprayed the naira at a public function.

A statement signed by the national coordinator of the Vanguard, David Osarobo, the leaders wondered why “desperate Obaseki and his political godson, Ighodalo”, will resort to character assassination in order to score cheap political points, adding that, leaders of the civil society were heavily induced to tarnish the image of Okpebholo, whose popularity they said, has hit the roofs since his emergence as the candidate of the APC.