Politics
Incumbent governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has said he will not get justice from a committee set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to vet aspirants seeking to get the party’s ticket ahead of the governorship election.
The governor stated after the screening process lasted for about two hours at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday.
Obaseki went through the process hours after Crusoe Osagie, media aide to the governor, reportedly claimed the committee delayed him for hours.
“The governor arrived early but the screening committee was not ready,” Osagie had said earlier in a statement on Wednesday.
“He was given the options to either wait for one hour or if he had an appointment to keep, he could go and call them to know if they were ready.
“The governor, who had a Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) meeting, went for the meeting and called when he was done, but the members of the screening committee did not pick their phones.”
Speaking with journalists after the exercise, Obaseki said he is not sure of getting justice because Adams Oshiomhole, APC national chairman, has refused to recuse himself from the process.
“Like I said, as a party man I had to go through the screening process but I do not believe that I will get justice because Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is an interested party in the Edo process,” the governor said.
“One of the questions asked was why did I issue a gazette that will prevent the party from performing direct elections in Edo. That did I not see it as an anti-party activity?”
Oshiomhole is widely believed to be in support of Osagie Ize-Iyamu for the party’s governorship ticket.
Ize-Iyamu who will be battling Obaseki for the APC governorship ticket had contested against him on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2016 but lost.
The APC primary election has been slated for June 22.
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