By Isaac Olamikan / Correspondent, Benin
Aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Egor Local Government Council of Edo State under the aegis of Concerned Stakeholders, on Tuesday protested the alleged screening of an aspirant of the party for the House of Assembly seat in Egor, Nosa Adams, who was last week remanded at Oko prison for alleged attempted murder.
The PDP stakeholders, in a petition addressed to the state chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, and signed by Mr Uwa Samson, Pastor Sam
Ugofure and three others, alleged that the aspirant was smuggled out of the Oko prison by some leaders of the PDP in Edo South, where he was taken to an undisclosed hotel to be screened by the screening committee led by Olushola Oke.
It would be recalled that a Magistrate’s Court in Egor presided over by Magistrate Igho Braimoh had remanded Adams at the Oko prison last week Wednesday over alleged attempted murder of three PDP members during the ward delegates’ congress of the party.
However, in the petition, which was also copied to the national leadership of the PDP, the stakeholders expressed shock that “ Mr Nosa Adams, who was absent during the screening, who is still at Oko prison had been screened, cleared and issued clearance certificate in absentia. The most shameful of it is that a leader of the party in Edo South coerced the screening committee to screen and clear Mr Adams.
“Sir, the screening of Nosa Adams in absentia in order for him to participate in the forthcoming House of Assembly primary election is an aberration and this had made Egor PDP to be like a keg sitting on a gun powder waiting for explosion. It is complete breach of PDP guidelines and capable of destroying the party in the council.
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