If the results posted in Ogbona ward are replicated across Edo North Senatorial District, then the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would have been comprehensively defeated in the State Assembly poll, which held on Saturday.
Ogbona is the home base of the National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the PDP, Chief Dan Osi Orbih, who is having a running battle with Governor Godwin Obaseki, on the control of the PDP structure.
The Supreme Court had recently ruled that the list of national and state assemblies candidates produced by the Obaseki camp in the primary poll season was the authentic list that INEC must recognise.
That verdict had shut out the real owners of the party and the solid candidates the primary poll of the Legacy PDP had produced.
Orbih and his men and women had decided to restrategise in the face of their loss at the Supreme Court.
THE CONCLAVE can report authoritatively that the Orbih-led Legacy PDP did not vote or work for the other camp.
This had clearly manifested in the outcomes of the presidential poll in the state in which the party’s standard bearer, Atiku Abubakar, came a distant third. Peter Obi of the Labour Party had won followed closely by Bola Tinubu of the APC.
The APC and the Labour Party had both shared the Senatorial seats at 2 to 1 respectively.
In the House of Representatives poll, the APC had won 5 seats while Labour Party had pocketed two seats.
Two were outstanding- Esan West, Esan Central and Igueben Federal seat and Urhumwonde/Orhiomwon Federal constituency seat.
They would be concluded in today’s election, according to INEC.
The PDP was missing in action on February 25. It seems to be missing in action on March 18, going by the snippets of results that have been trickling in.
In Edo North, where the Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu, hails from, PDP is a complete whipping boy due to Governor Obaseki’s mismanagement of the PDP guber victory in the state.
The PDP has also suffered a routing in Edo South and its traditional strong hold of Edo Central.
Significantly in Dan Orbih’s Ogbona (Ward 4) in
Etsako Central LGA, which the PDP had always won, the party lost this time round to the APC.
The APC win is emphatic.
See the results hereunder reproduced:
COMPREHENSIVE (OGBONA WARD 4) RESULTS FOR EDO STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTION HELD ON SATURDAY, 18TH MARCH, 2023.
Unit 01
APC. 229
PDP. 18
Unit 02
APC. 198
PDP. 12
Unit 03
APC. 89
PDP. 06
Unit 04
APC. 253
PDP. 16
Unit 05
APC. 196
PDP. 58
Unit 06
APC. 235
PDP. 50
Unit 07
APC 174
PDP. 58
Unit 08
APC. 21
PDP. 23
Unit 09
APC. 148
PDP. 09
Unit 10
APC. 44
PDP. 05
Unit 11
APC. 81
PDP. 07
Unit 12
APC. 36
PDP. 09
Unit 13
APC. 38
PDP. 15
Unit 14
APC 54
PDP. 20
SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOR THE 2 MAJOR PARTIES IN OGBONA WARD 4, ETSAKO CENTRAL, EDO STATE:
APC. 1,796
PDP. 306
THE CONCLAVE reports that feelers indicated that the Dan Orbih group might have decisively pulled the rug from under the feet of Obaseki’s INEC -recognised faction of the PDP.
This, overall, will bear implications for Obaseki’s governorship if he cannot produce any member of the State House of Assembly, let alone having the majority PDP .
The governor is faced with an uphill task of controlling the House to oreserve his governorship.
