Prince Emmanuel Odigie, Deputy Director-General of the Edo PDP Governorship Campaign Council, on Tuesday, September 24, broke down in tears during an interview with AriseTV Morning Show.His emotional outburst was in response to the outcome of the Edo governorship election, which saw the APC’s Monday Okpebholo declared winner.Odigie’s party has since rejected the results of the state governorship election.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
Okpebholo, a serving senator, won the election with 291,667 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Asue Ighodalo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 247,274 votes.Odigie during the interview recounted a heart-wrenching encounter with four women at the airport before the election.
According to him, the women, two from Houston and two from Atlanta, had travelled to Nigeria to vote for Asue Ighodalo for the first time, mobilising their family and friends to do the same.
He said: “What happened to the will of the people? What happens to voting, competence, and the betterment of society?”Speaking in a sorrowful tone, Odigie said: “If they did this evil to project the best candidate, that has intellectual depth, the intellectual capacity to articulate and do what is needed to take Edo to the next level. I won’t be feeling this bad.”He said: “It is evidently clear that the fight against Asue Ighodalo was a vendetta fight against Godwin Obaseki.”