Edo: Oshiomhole’s EFCC Threat Preposterous, Says PDP

• Party says governor feeling nervous

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as absurd the recent threat by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to arrest the PDP’s candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, before the September 10, gubernatorial election.

The party said the Governor is only being nervous and unsettled that the PDP’s moving train will uproot the APC from the State.

In a statement issued on Thursday by its spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, PDP queried when it has become the duty of Oshiomhole to dictate for the EFCC, wondering if the ‘go and die’ Governor has become an operative of the anti-corruption agency.

“We have observed in recent times the utterances of the Governor of Edo State during the APC’s gubernatorial campaigns ahead of the September 10, 2016 election in the state and we wish to remind the Governor that he should maintain the sanctity of his office as an executive Governor of the State instead of directing the EFCC on who to arrest or prosecute,” Adeyeye said.

The PDP further stressed that Oshiomhole’s statement confirms the belief and the opinion of perceptible Nigerians that the anti-corruption war of the present administration is nothing but a partisan political agenda to intimidate, suppress and silence the PDP.

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