Edo Guber: Obaseki May Return To APC Before PDP Primaries Scheduled for 25 June. See Strong Reasons.llConeri Magazine

Edo Guber: Obaseki May Return To APC Before PDP Primaries. See Strong Reasons.

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Coneri Magazine

As the battle for who becomes the candidate of the now Ruling Party in Edo thickens with primary election scheduled to hold on Thursday, June 25, the PDP on Saturday screened Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki, a new entrant vying for the party’s ticket to contest the Sept. 19 governorship poll.

Obaseki was screened at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.

Speaking with newsmen shortly after he was screened by the Kingsley Chinda-led screening committee, Obaseki commended the party for the exercise, and expressed optimism that he would secure the PDP ticket.

“The screening exercise was fair and professional; I saw objectivity in it.”

Obaseki said he was not a divisive candidate, adding that he was “speaking with all the aspirants”.

“My hope and purpose for the PDP is to have a united and very strong party.


“Party primary should not be divisive because we, as a party, are focused on the same objective, but because we are individuals, our approaches may be different.

“So, party primary, in my view, should not be acrimonious and destructive. There are common grounds, common interests and I am very hopeful that I will get it even as there are quite a number of delegates for the exercise,” he said.

Asked of the credentials he presented to the committee, Obaseki said: “I presented all my certificates, my secondary school, higher school, university and my National Youth Service certificate, so that they can look at them and see if there are inconsistencies.

“You can ask the screening committee if there are any inconsistencies in any of them,” Obaseki said.

Also asked if he still enjoyed the sympathy of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, Obaseki said he enjoyed national support, not just support from his colleagues from the APC.



“There are elder statesmen who are apolitical; there are traditional rulers; I have people from different spectrum of the society who come around on solidarity with me.

But However, with pressure by the APC  to return home and the hit by some PDP Aspirants who have refused to step down for him, experts says Obaseki may return to his former party in no distant time.

But whether this will come to reality is for time to judge.