Edo Assembly crisis: Oshiomhole is inviting anarchy —PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) In Edo State has described a warning issued by Governor Adams Oshiomhole that market women and the youths of the state might help the police to execute a court order suspending four members of the state House as an invitation to anarchy. The party, in a statement issued weekend and signed by its state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, said the governor’s statement was shocking, pointing out that the governor was trying to make youths and market women perform duties constitutionally vested on law enforcement agencies. The statement further added that the statement by Governor Oshiomhole was “offensive, mutinous, crude, inciting, reckless, indecent and capable of causing anarchy in the state. Orbih explained that the order referred to by the governor had a subsisting lifespan of 14 days that has since lapsed and that a subsisting motion on stay of execution on the order has rendered it ineffective. “The call on youths and market women to usurp the duties of the police is a veiled attempt at legitimising the use of APC thugs to achieve Governor Oshiomhole’s wishes. Edo people have seen on television in the last week or two Hon. Philip Shuaibu’s traffic-warden-like signals to APC thugs to invade the Edo State House of Assembly Complex. They have also observed the restraint exercised by Edo PDP and its civil, mature and responsible approach to the current impasse.