Ahead of the Edo Governorship election slated to hold on September 2020, 35 registered and de-registered political parties have merged with the People’s Democratic Party PDP.
The political parties are giving their support to the PDP candidate and governor of the state Godwin Obaseki for his second term in office.
Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP Collins Oreruan, speaking on behalf of the group, said that the decision was made to ensure the governor gets his second term bid and urged the PDP to include their party in the main campaign organisation for the governorship polls.
Governor Obaseki on June 19, 2020, dumped the All Progressives Congress APC for the People’s Democratic Party PDP a week after he was screened out and declared unfit to participate in the APC primary election and following his defection into the PDP picked up his membership card at the party’s secretariat in Benin City, the state capital.
While thanking party faithful, he noted that the energy I see in this party is the kind of energy I require to take Edo to the level we should go to next.
