Alleged prostitution comment sets Edo APC, PDP women in fierce battle

Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women have harped on a comment referring to Edo women as prostitutes to further campaigns for the coming governorship election in the state.

The wife of the APC governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki, Mrs Betsy, is said to have in an interview not too long ago alleged that PDP bad governance while it ruled the state was the reason many Edo girls went abroad to seek greener pastures.

However, some women leaders of the PDP said to be led by Mrs Evelyn Igbafe, interpreted her statement to mean that Edo women are prostitutes and have being insisting she must apologise, even as they use it to campaign against the APC.

But Dr Mrs Aisosa Amadasun, APC Women Leader in the state, in her reaction called Mrs Igbafe a political jobber and asked Edo people not to take her serious.

“One can only apologise for what he or she did but in this case Mrs Obaseki never did anything wrong because she never in that interview described our women as prostitutes as being labelled by Igbafe and her cohorts.

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