For supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC, against the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming Edo governorship election, a
landlord, David Agberemole, has evicted no fewer than five tenants in
his house located in Uzea Community in Esan North East Local Government
Area of the state.
Lamenting their ordeal, The Nation reports that the tenants, Mr
Sylvester Chukwuemeka, Okosun Christiana and Ogbeide Elizabeth, stated
that they had suffered untold hardship from their landlord for not
supporting the PDP, for which the landlord has sympathy.
One of the tenants, Okosun Christiana who spoke in her native Esan
dialect said, “We don’t have any problem, just party differences, he
told us he wanted everyone in the house to support PDP, because he is a
member of the party, but I refused.
“I told him that I have been in APC for a very long time that even if
the PDP is buying me a car, I prefer to remain in the APC, and he said
since that is my stand; I should consider myself evicted from his
house,” She explained.
Also speaking, another of the evicted tenants, Sylvester Chukwuemeka,
revealed that his rents were up to date, adding that the action of
their landlord negates the principle of fair play and justice just
because they refused to support the PDP.
“I don’t understand why the landlord will just decide to drive us out
of his house because we are not supporting PDP. I pay my rent regularly
and this is not fair to me.
“The state government should come to our aid because I don’t know when it became a crime to support a party.”Chukwuemeka called on relevant authority to come to their aid just as
the Acting Executive Chairman of Edo State Internal Revenue Service,
Barr. Emmanuel Usoh, according to the report, has given the evicted
tenants some bags of cement and money to build their own houses.
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