AHEAD the 2015 general election, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in
Edo State has disclosed that it would field in its best team, just as it
assured that there would be no imposition of candidates.
State chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, gave the assurance at
the weekend, in Benin, while receiving Honourable Ehiogie West Idahosa,
who was at the party secretariat to formally inform the Edo State
Working Committee of his intention to contest for the Edo South
Senatorial seat under the PDP platform.
“We will throw the contest open to ensure that only the very best
emerges. The issue of who represents the state at the National Assembly
is not for ‘alleluias’ boys; people must give us reasons they want to
represent us,” Orbih said.
Earlier, Honourable Idahosa told the party leadership that he was
vying for the Edo South senatorial seat to enable him offer qualitative
representation to the zone and Edo State, just as he expressed gratitude
to the PDP for the opportunity offered him in the past.
Idahosa, who represented Ovia Federal Constituency in the House of
Representatives between 1999 and 2011, appealed to the party to consider
him for the race, saying he hailed from was the least represented
constituency in the Edo South senatorial zone.
He listed among his achievements as a member of the House of
Representatives, the employment of over 820 Edo citizens in the
paramilitary forces and in the oil and gas sector, the promulgation into
law of the NDDC Bill, the establishment of the Niger Delta Ministry,
recovery of oil wells to Edo State from Delta State, motion for the
recovery of Benin artifacts in Europe and America.
He listed the establishment of a seaport at Gelegele in Ovia
North-East Local Government Area of the state, among others, as what he
hope to achieve if elected senator.
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