PDP will take over Edo – Ikimi

 

               A former minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, on Thursday boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party would take over Edo State.
                Ikimi, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, said he has a common agenda with the Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, for Edo State and Nigeria in general.

The former minister, who spoke at a reception to welcome him to the PDP in Benin City, said he was not joining the party to vie for any elective political office.
He said, “I left the APC for the PDP where I shall be given my respects and my personal dignity restored. The PDP will take over the state once again and once beaten, twice shy.
“I am not interested in being in a party of enemies where a party man will plot against the party. I am at peace with all the leaders of the PDP whether big or small. I have implicit confidence in Chief Tony Anenih and we have had several meetings and I believe we have bridged the gaps.
“I came here today not as a new member. I come here to be fully identified with my groups of 1999 and 2003. In politics, the party is supreme. We came here as cooks to cook the food and share it to others. But those who came in took the food, the plates, the pots and everything away and left the cooks with nothing.”
He described the APC as his baby, adding that what was achieved in Igueben was done by the federal government.