A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Kassim Afegbua, has expressed unhappiness at the emergence of Edo governor, Godwin Obaseki as the party’s gubernatorial candidates, vowing not to support his second term ambition.
Mr Afegbua who was the PDP spokesperson in the 2019 presidential election made his position known to Channels Television.
He was quoted as saying, “At least, I am bold enough to come out in the open and say that I will not support Obaseki. It would have been different if I was hiding or pretending to be supporting him and doing some damage,” Mr Afegbua was quoted by Channels Television as saying recently.
Mr Afegbua, according to the Channels report, is aggrieved at the way Mr Obaseki emerged as the candidate of the PDP a few days after joining the party.
“My position on Obaseki is not borne out of desperation, greed or money politics. My position on Obaseki is borne out of the fact that there has to be a difference in the way and manner that democracy is run in this country.
“Someone cannot just join a party within 24 hours, you surrender every whims and caprice of the party to him and then you sit back and tell me that you are celebrating your Christmas early enough in the day,” he said.
Mr Afegbua did not say if he would work against Mr Obaseki in the September election.
Mr Obaseki, who fought a protracted political battle with his predecessor and former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, recently defected from the APC to the PDP after he was disqualified from contesting in the APC primary.
