Edo 2020: Obaseki Disqualified From Edo Guber Race

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has been disqualified from contesting the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in the state. 

The screening committee said that Obaseki was unfit to qualify on the grounds that his HSC and NYSC certificates are defective.

Also disqualified are two other aspirants of the party. 

Obaseki had recently asked the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, to stay away from the party’s governorship primaries in Edo State, even as he explained why he visited the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Addressing newsmen after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, he denied secretly obtaining the nomination and expression of interest forms of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following his face-off with Oshiomhole.

The Edo State Governor categorically warned Oshiomhole to steer clear of all the processes leading up to the June 22 governorship primary election of the APC in the state “because he is an interested party”.

AllNews had reported that Ize-Iyamu, Oshiomole's candidate, was declared the consensus candidate of the party by a screening committee shortly after he secured the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, waiver to contest the party primary slated for June 22, 2020.