The former lawmaker was suspended at the PDP Oredo Ward 2 meeting held at the Airport Road in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
According to Leadership, Lawrence Aguebor, the Oredo PDP Ward II chairman, read out the resolution reached at the meeting on Tuesday, June 19.
Aguebor said that the party’s ward executives and some stakeholders met two weeks ago and suspended the former lawmaker for 30 days. Subsequently, a disciplinary committee was set up.
The ward chairman further disclosed that the committee wrote to Ogbiede-Ihama, called him on the phone, and had five sittings, but the former federal lawmaker failed to appear before the disciplinary committee.
He stressed that they had received the committee’s report and recommendations, which included his expulsion from the party.
The statement reads in part:
Ogbiede-Ihama’s suspension came at a time the governorship election in the state was becoming tense.
TimesNow.com.ng earlier reported that the PDP deputy director of media in the Edo state governorship election campaign, Reverend Olu Martins, has been arrested by the police.
CP Funsho Adegboye, the Edo state commissioner of police, confirmed the development to journalists on Tuesday, June 11.
The police commissioner said that the comment of the PDP campaign spokesperson was inciting and inflammatory, and he has been charged with court.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
