Edo Primary:It Was Nothing But a Comedy, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen

Ali Modu Sheriff 

Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, An aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State has pledged loyalty to the party’s ousted Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff.

Matthew who rejected the outcome of the party’s primary, which produced Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as its candidate, stated that he would participate in the primary election Sheriff faction of the party slated for June 28.‎


Ize-Iyamu had been declared the winner of the exercise by the committee chaired by the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, with a total of 584 votes to defeat his two other opponents, Iduoriyekemwen and Solomon Edebiri, who got 91 and 38 votes, respectively.

But the former Majority Leader in the state House of Assembly, who spoke on Friday evening in Benin, the state capital, described the primary election as a “comedy” which was “clinically manipulated” to favour a preferred candidate of the state leadership of the party.