The landlord identified as David Agberemole, has evicted no fewer
than five tenants in his house located in Uzea Community in Esan North
East Local Government Area of Edo state.
Their crime was simply that they were supporting the All
Progressives Congress, APC, against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
in the forthcoming Edo governorship election in the state.
According to The Nation, the tenants, Mr Sylvester Chukwuemeka,
Okosun Christiana and Ogbeide Elizabeth, lamenting their ordeal, 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 said.
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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