Aggrieved PDP Governorship Aspirants May Likely Be At Their Wits' end!Based On Lack Of Substantive Evidences (Congress Video Clips Have Political Legitimacy)

The Congress Election that produced 3 Ad-hoc delegates,on February 04,2024 across the 192 Wards, in 18 Local Government Area of the state was earmarked as one of the best congress elections since 1999.

In Edo state, PDP members turned out in high numbers to pick their delegates; a consequence of the high interest voters was taken in the high profile Edo Governorship race. Across the wards too, peace was maintained by large contingents of police officers and members of the Edo Security Network who were very conspicuous at the venues.

However,the process which was observed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and various civil society groups were reported to be mostly peaceful across the state.

The embittered Governorship Aspirants did not accept the conduct of the Congress election based on individual reasons.

The Aggrieved Aspirants were asked to tender their grievances to the appropriate channel.

They appeared before the Appeal Committee Panel on February 8, 2024 for formal hearing.

The Appeal Committee was headed by the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Sierake Dickson,which had a closed-door on individual basis at the national secretariat of the PDP in Abuja.

The Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Appeal Committee hearing complaints from some of the governorship aspirants for the February 22, 2024 governorship primary election on February 8, 2024 met individually with the aggrieved aspirants in a confidential and formal approach headed by the aforementioned chairman.

The Appeal Committee were armed with video clips of the three man delegate election and they were asked to specifically state their areas of complaint from the video clips that have political legitimacy.This they couldn't defend.

The Aggrieved Governorship Aspirants could not prove beyond reasonable doubt to disregard the legality and authenticity of the video clips which have Political legitimacy.