Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) yesterday
raised the alarm over fears of reprisal attacks following an open
accusation by Governor Adams Oshiomhole that the PDP was responsible
for the assassination of his private secretary, late Comrade Olaitan
Oyerinde, in Benin last week.
Oshiomhole had last week, while addressing supporters of the ACN, who
had staged a protest to government house and major streets in Benin
metropolis, told the large crowd of a meeting allegedly held at the
residence of the national leader of the PDP in Abuja, where the
opposition, fearing it would lose the July 14 election, agreed to
unleash mayhem on leaders of the ruling ACN members in the state.
Edo State Publicity secretary of PDP, Mathew Uroghide, in a press
statement in Benin yesterday, said Oshiomhole’s threat to resort to self
help after the police might have failed, violated constitutional means
to seek justice, pledging that the PDP was ready to fight back. This is
even as, he said, the party had also condemned the assassination of
the governor’s aide.
Parts of the statement read: “Edo PDP cautions Governor Oshiomhole
not to resort to unjustified reprisal attacks or barbaric means to
resolve this. If he, as he promised, carries his threat through and
unleashes the hoodlums, we will do everything we may to square up to any
provocations directed at us.”
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