Obende; The gang up is about 2023 senatorial ticket

By DADA AYOKHAI
The former senator representing Edo North in the national assembly, Senator Domingo Obende, has attributed his current travails in the APC  
 seeking his removal on the basis of some spurious allegations bordering on "anti party activities", smacks of a gang up, insisting however that the whole scenario is a build up to who gets the Edo North APC senatorial ticket in 2023. 

Sen Obende's statement comes on the heels of a petition signed by  Edo North APC national Assembly caucus,  demanding his removal as the chairman of Niger State APC registration and validation committee. 

In an interview with an online platform   Sen Obende said he is at a loss about the script playing out, wondering also how his traducers became suddenly awakened and crystallised into a caucus. 

He said, "Nobody has ever queried or questioned me on any issue relating to anti party activities. Their allegations are spurious and at no time did they follow the properly laid out party rules for the discipline of an errant member, assuming their claim is true. What you see happening is geared towards who gets the party's senatorial ticket in 2023. 

I will advise them to relax and allow God to empower everyone in His own time rather than trying to become enforcers of the will of man". 

 Discounting his traducers,  Sen Obende insisted party decisions are neither taken in beer parlours nor made the subject of gossip, as the so-called caucus tried to misinform and mislead the public. 

Alluding to the fact that he has demonstrated sufficient commitment and loyalty to the party in the district and, therefore, does not deserve disrespect, the former senator submitted further that ,

"When a member of a political party is percieved to have offended, such member will be queried and a disciplinary committee set up and if found guilty a recommendation will be made to the appropriate organs of the party from his ward not from a faceless paid character, to be clamoring for  my exclusion from the party.  The last time I checked, in the last quarter of last year after the governorship election, I was the one who paid the rent of the Akoko- Edo Local Government APC party headquarters and that is what I call commitment to the party I trust and I believe."

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