BENIN — EDO State Chairman of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, yesterday, took a swipe at the factional People Democratic Party candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who had said that the crises within PDP and a godfather led to the failure of the administration of former governor, Lucky Igbinedion.

The 16 years pregnant Orbih said Ize-Iyamu was the principal actor in parties that Contributed to the failing of the said administration.

Describing his allegation as baseless and mischievous, he said Ize-Iyamu’s statement as the former Secretary to the State Government, SSG, to Lucky Igbinedion’s administration, had exposed the kind of people who were the nucleus of that government.

Speaking with newsmen in Benin yesterday, Orbih insisted that for a man who was the SSG to say that the party then in power did not have a manifesto showed how shallow those who were at the centre of that administration were.

He noted that since 1999, when PDP was voted into office, it always had a constitution and a manifesto that were subjected to amendments over the years, but regretted that for a Principal Officer of that government to say otherwise was very unfortunate.

On The Godfather

On the allegation that a godfather contributed to the failure of Igbinedion’s government, he said: “I want to state that looking at the profile of that government from 1999 up to the time they left office,

From Ambrose Kevin Akhigbe Forum