Members of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State will embark on a peaceful protest over what the party’s state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, described as unwarranted arrest of members in the state.
Orbih, who made the allegation at a campaign rally held at Ogbeson Quarters, near Benin, said that the recent incident in Okada, Ovia North- East Local Government Area, where 13 PDP youths were arrested on “trumped up charges” was unacceptable.
He said that two weeks ago, youths from Egbeta, a rural community near Okada, were arraigned before a court by the state’s attorney-general and commissioner for justice, for alleged “threat to public peace and assaulting a civil commissioner.”
“This week is the last we would allow the Edo state attorney- general to change the charges against our members,” Orbih said.
“If it happens again, we would take to the streets to protest the arrest of PDP members by the APC-led government.”
The PDP governorship candidate in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, had on Monday alleged that Governor Adams Oshiomhole was intimidating him with apparatus of the state ahead of the September 10 gubernatorial election in the state.
Dailytrust
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