Edo PDP Crisis: There Was Never Any Harmonization

Edo PDP Crisis: There Was Never Any Harmonization

There Was Never Any Harmonization.

It’s with unsettling trepidation but amusement that we read the Edo State Government publication signed by the Secretary to the Government, Bar. Osarodion Ogie, purportedly and erroneously claiming the list of approved belated appointments of Senior Special Assistants and Senior Assistants was occasioned by the imaginary harmonization of Party, PDP Executives. To put it clearly, the publication credited to the Secretary to the State Government dated 2nd December 2021 read, “Following the harmonization of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the leaders of the party across Edo State, Governor Obaseki has approved appointments of 38 Senior Special Assistants and 96 Special Assistants…” For the records, we have observed that 95% of those appointed were former APC members who joined the Party with the Governor. We however congratulate them and wish them well in the endeavour.

The statement that the appointment flowed from purported harmonisation is misleading. It is a figment of imagination and an officially sponsored falsehood. There was never harmonization of any kind in Edo North PDP. The issue of Party Exco harmonization has since been put to rest as the National Convention has approved the congresses that elected the present Executive at all levels in the state. And most importantly, the executive members of the PDP who were duly elected in the congresses last year(2020) have a tenure of 4 years which was recently validated during the just concluded National Convention. The National Convention rectified all the Ward, LGA and State Congresses that produced the party executives at all these levels, and it is incontestable.

The National Convention is the highest organ of the party and its decision is final and binding on all members of the party. Anybody, no matter how highly placed, who decides to take contrary step under the notorious guise of unconstitutional and discarded harmonization or integration will be viewed as engaging in anti-party activities, and such activities will not escape disciplinary action. We cannot fold our hands and allow some aggrieved and ungrateful elements destabilise the party in the state.

We advise mischief agents of harmonization to check the provisions of the Party Constitution to appreciate the futility of their ill-advised destructive mission.

All party members enjoined to ignore the phoney harmonisation and concentrate on the task of winning support for the party as we prepare for the coming elections to the state, National Assembly and Presidential election.

Hon. Segun Saiki.
Vice Chairman, Edo North.

Hon. Sherrif
Edo North Senatorial Secretary.