The heat of the Edo election has hit home as five tenants have been rendered homeless by their landlord for supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s governorship election.

The landlord, David Agberemole ejected the tenants from his house in Uzea Community in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

According to some of the ejected tenants, Sylvester Chukwuemeka, Okosun Christiana and Ogbeide Elizabeth they said they had suffered untold hardship in the hands of their landlord for not supporting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

One of the tenants, Okosun Christiana who spoke in her native dialect (Esan) 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”

Also speaking, another evicted tenant Sylvester Chukwuemeka said he was surprised at the landlord’s action as his rents were up to date. He wondered if it was a crime to support a party different from that of his landlord.

“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 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 the relevant authorities to come to their aid.

However, the Acting Executive Chairman of Edo State Internal Revenue Service, Barr. Emmanuel Usoh has given the evicted tenants some bags of cement and money to build their own houses.

The said landlord was unreachable to state his own side of the story, as his relatives said he had traveled.

Oludolapo Adelana

Dolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, politics and sports.