The list of delegates that emerged from the April 30, 2022 three-man ad-hoc delegates congress in Edo State has been reportedly hijacked and replaced by Governor Godwin Obeseki.
Sources in Edo State confirmed on Monday that the list of delegates submitted to the Wadata House, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretariat, was different from the authentic list of people that won delegate slots across the state.
There were claims that the five-man committee sent to conduct the ad-hoc exercise was locked up in the Edo Government House and later ferried at night under security cover to address the press at the PDP’s secretariat in Benin to justify the doctored list.
For instance, in Esan North-East and Esan South-East local governments, the entire list of delegates in the 21 wards was said to have been replaced by one Emma Okodua, a House of Representatives aspirant.
This was reportedly done in a desperate attempt to corner victory in the scheduled May 12, 2022 forthcoming House of Representatives primary election.
Sources alleged that Okodua had secretly compiled a list of persons in the 21 wards making up the federal constituency, contrary to the authentic list of delegates that emerged from the three-man ad-hoc delegates congress.
An atmosphere of unease has enveloped the state, as party members have vowed to resist the purported hijack and doctoring of the list across the State.
There were feelers that the those who emerged in the process were considering a formal protest and legal action to upend the alleged executive rascality, impunity and arbitrariness.
