- EDO PDP GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARY
- INDEPENDENT OBSERVER GROUP GIVES IT TO GIDEON IKHINE
Ahead of the Edo PDP governorship primary coming up on 23rd to 24th of June 2020, an independent elections observer group in the state, has given victory to Engr Gideon Ikhine. In an opinion poll conducted across the state among 1200 statutory delegates of the party, 825 of the delegates said they will vote for Engr Gideon Ikhine during the primary.
Presenting the polls results to a cross section of the press at the NUJ secretariat in Benin today, the coordinator of the Intra Party Democracy Group (IPDG) , Comrade Godwin Ohonsi, said that 415 delegates out of the 600 from Edo South endorsed Gideon Ikhine while 210 and 200 among the 300 each from Edo Central and Edo North senatorial districts voted for him.
82 of the delegates were undecided while the rest chose other aspirants.
Most of the delegates based their choice of Gideon Ikhine on the fact that he is the only aspirant who has visited them in their wards. They also said that his face to face interactions with them afforded them the opportunities to assess him. The delegates said that Engr Gideon Ikhine, is more than capable of leading the party out of opposition in the state.
Reacting to the report, the Director General of the Edo Restoration 2020, Hon Victor Edos Ebomwoyi, said that it is a call to continue to work harder. He said that the campaign team is not expecting a tight result during the primary but a landslide victory for Engr Gideon Ikhine.
Remember, with Gideon Ikhine as our candidate… It Is Possible
Tony Okonigene, Spokesperson
Edo Restoration 2020
By Kenny Akinrowo
In the new dispensation, Edo should be looking at industrialisation with Agriculture and downstream activities of the Oil sector, e.g. production of lubricants and gas utilisation.