LG Poll: Crisis rocks Edo APC as group protest alleged imposition

Ahead of the forthcoming Local Government Elections successful Edo State, a situation has rocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful the authorities implicit the alleged imposition of a chairmanship candidate.

DAILY POST reports that members of the enactment successful Ovia North-East Local Government Area connected Monday, March 16, 2026, staged a peaceful protestation alleging that a chieftain of the enactment is imposing Mr. Christopher Enamatoe arsenic the party’s chairmanship candidate.

The protestation was staged by Concerned Ovia North-East Leaders and youths.

Speaking to newsmen, the spokesperson of the protesters, Hon. Luggard Ayenoma, however, called for the involution of the Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo.

Ayenoma alleged that Mr. Christopher Enamatoe is not a subordinate of the APC and, arsenic such, cannot beryllium fixed specified a captious presumption successful the section government.

He further alleged that the imposed chairmanship campaigner erstwhile worked against the enactment arsenic a media cause to the erstwhile governor, Godwin Obaseki, successful the predetermination that brought Governor Okpebholo to power.

According to him, Ovia North-East Local Government Area is blessed with large potential, but imposing idiosyncratic with absorption affiliations arsenic president due to the fact that of maternal relationships sounds atrocious and embarrassing.

“It sidelines morganatic enactment stakeholders and qualified indigenes from our Local Government Area, weakens cohesion, and undermines the rule of loc...