The candidate of the KOWA party in the forthcoming Edo State governorship poll, Thompson Osadolor, has withdrawn from the race.
Osadolor anchored his reason to withdraw from the race on the postponement of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
But the KOWA candidate, who faulted the postponement, lamented that the failure of the commission to hold the election on September 10 “destabilised” his campaign.
He said, “I am not satisfied with the postponement of the election. They (INEC) knew that we would win the election, that was why they postponed it.
“Having done that, they have destabilised us. That is one of the reasons we withdrew.”
According to him, the PDP was a better alternative because there were similarities in the manifestoes of both parties.
“Because of the postponement of the election, I met with my campaign team and we decided to harness our campaign with that of the PDP.
“Our manifesto and the PDP’s are very similar and I think we will be able to work together. We reached an agreement with the PDP that we are going to run an inclusive government.
“PDP did not make any financial commitment to us. We have no financial agreement”, he stated.
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