By Gabriel Enogholase
BENIN— FORMER South-South Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Joe Edionwele, yesterday, said the decision by the Presidency to give automatic tickets to serving senators in the National Assembly would not stand the test of time.
He contended that giving the senators automatic tickets would create infighting and division within the party, which might affect PDP in the 2015 elections.
He said: “It will not stand the test of time because it is the will of the people that will prevail. It is the electorate that will decide who will go back to the National Assembly. It is going to be based on your performance and not by arrangement with anybody.
“If the President was going to do such a thing, he would have done it in consultations with the elders of the party in their various constituencies. As long as that did not take place, I do not think it will stand the test of time and nobody is going to accept it.
“If at all it took place, I can tell you that nobody is going to accept that because, at the end of the day, you also have to win election. So we must take our best, the first eleven, to contest; people that have character and honour.”
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