The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied any agreement between its governorship candidate in next Saturday’s election, General Charles Arhiavbere and Chief Tony Anenih, which it claimed is being circulated by the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole campaign organisation, describing it as “a very funny and ludicrous document”.
In the last few days some faceless group has been circulating a document which suggested that Gen. Airhiavbere had signed an agreement with Chief Anenih over the role the former chairman PDP Board of Trustees would play if the candidate wins the governorship election.
But the state publicity secretary of the party, Mr. Matthew Urhoghide in a statement last night said that the document is being circulated by detractors of Edo PDP in a desperate bid to discredit the party and score cheap political points.
According to him, “Everything is wrong with the document. Edo PDP believes the forged document surfaced when the ACN got wind of the fact that the PDP was in possession of an agreement document between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor Oshiomhole which she planned to make public.
“First the letterhead on which the mischievous agreement was drawn is very unprofessionally made and is not the official letterhead of Chief Tony Anenih’s. ‘Eben’ and ‘Ada’, the symbols used as logo on it are used by the Benins of Edo State.
The agreement stated in the third-person singular, and ended in the first-person singular. Pages 1 & 2 of the document are two separate letterheads. The fake agreement was not witnessed by anybody but the contractual parties alone.”
The party spokesman added that the signatures and handwriting are not those of Chief Anenih’s and Gen. Arhiavbere’s and the address at the bottom of the paper is not of any known residence of Chief Tony Anenih. The originators should have done their home work before insulting the intelligence of Edo people with their hasty and ill-calculated supposed counterpoint.”