By Deborah Coker
Nine months to the governorship elections in Edo, the PDP has warned the ruling APC in the state, to desist from taking actions or making utterances that would heat up the polity and stoke violence.
The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Edo, Mr Chris Nehikhare, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Friday.
His appeal comes amid worsening political tension in the state, arising from the governorship election in the state, slated for August next year.
Nehikhare appealed to law enforcement agencies, especially the police to be at alert in view of the tension building up, following planned decamping of a PDP chieftain to the APC.
“The PDP condemns the grandstanding of various factions of the APC on the APC factional rally scheduled for Dec. 13.
“Edo State, which hitherto, was a peaceful and tolerant state is being steadily turned to `Kabul,’ the war-torn capital of Afghanistan.
“In the past few…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
