Edo Primary: Dissatisfied PDP Aspirant Vows To Work With Sheriff

Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, An aspirant of
the Peoples Democratic Party in the
forthcoming governorship election in Edo
State has pledged loyalty to the party’s
ousted Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff.
Matthew who rejected the outcome of the
party’s primary, which produced Pastor
Osagie Ize-Iyamu as its candidate, stated
that he would participate in the primary
election Sheriff faction of the party slated
for June 28.
Ize-Iyamu had been declared the winner of
the exercise by the committee chaired by
the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi,
with a total of 584 votes to defeat his two
other opponents, Iduoriyekemwen and
Solomon Edebiri, who got 91 and 38 votes,
respectively.
But the former Majority Leader in the state
House of Assembly, who spoke on Friday
evening in Benin, the state capital,
described the primary election as a
“comedy” which was “clinically
manipulated” to favour a preferred
candidate of the state leadership of the
party.