Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon Yekini Idiaye and 16 other members have declared their supports for the All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
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Deputy Speaker Yekini Idiaye, who represents Akoko-Edo Constituency I, and four other members also pledged support for Ize-Iyamu.
Idiaye was on Monday joined by Emmanuel Agbaje (Akoko-Edo Constituency II), Nosayaba Okunbor (Orhiomwon East Constituency), Dumez Ugiagbe (member-elect, Ovia Northeast Constituency I) and Vincent Uwadiae (member-elect, Ovia Northeast Constituency II) on a solidarity visit to APC’s standard-bearer at his home in Benin, where they declared their support.
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The lawmakers said they would not leave the APC for another party, assuring Ize-Iyamu of their loyalty.
They said they would soon begin mobilisation of voters at the grassroots, to ensure his victory on September 19, 2020.
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The Deputy Speaker said he had no reason to join Governor Godwin Obaseki in his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or to back his re-election, noting that the non-performing Obaseki administration had failed to initiate any developmental project in his constituency despite his intervention efforts.
He said:
“There is no reason for me to defect to another party because there is no project in my village to show that the current administration is working.”
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