THE Peoples Democratic Party National Campaign Council for Edo Governorship Election has said that the people of Edo State have rejected what it described as the plagiarised SIMPLE Agenda being flaunted by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, declaring it an “Oluwole” (fake) document.
The PDP Campaign mocked the APC candidate over his failure to market what it called the deceptive SIMPLE Agenda, saying it was nothing but a “vacuous promissory note of inoperable claims that are bereft of personal commitment and governance bearing.”
The party in a release signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “Emptiness of Ize-Iyamu’s agenda again exposes the nervousness of a jittery individual who is desperate to use the Edo State governorship position to gain constitutional immunity and evade prosecution for alleged corruption.
“The APC has destroyed its own campaign as the people of Edo State cannot abandon a performing government under the PDP candidate, Governor Godwin Obaseki, with his highly acceptable, practical and development-driven MEGA manifesto, and go for the discredited APC with its candidate that has no plans to develop the state.”
The party said Edo voters had distanced themselves from the APC because the Ize-Iyamu’s “deceptive agenda” had proven to be nothing more than empty headlines without content or commitment from the maker.
The PDP said the Edo people could not see their common interest and aspiration in the document, which also failed to unveil any plan on any issue that pointed to their welfare and development as a people.
“The emptiness of the SIMPLE agenda underlines why the APC campaign has been empty, lacking in content and bereft of any bearing to the development of Edo State. It also explains why the APC candidate, Ize Iyamu, always stammers whenever he is confronted with questions on the document,” PDP said.
The party further explained why the APC could not engage on issue-based campaign, but had only resorted to violence and using discredited politicians such as the former National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, to overheat the polity.
The party said, “This campaign direction of the APC has also validated the position of the people of Edo State that the APC has no mission in the state other than to attempt to use its candidate, Ize-Iyamu, to gain access, pillage the resources and suppress the people.
“However, such plots have fallen flat in the face of overwhelming support of vast majority of Edo people for our candidate, Governor Obaseki, whose MEGA manifesto remains a practical testimony of achievements, promises kept and roadmap for further massive development of the state…
“The PDP campaign commends the Edo people for rallying with Governor Obaseki in his winning campaign despite the cacophony, lies and violence of the APC, whose antics will never detract from the determination of the people to vote for the PDP and reelect their choice leader, Governor Godwin Obaseki, come September 19.”
