Edo 2020: PDP leaders were behind Obaseki’s disqualification – Oshiomole

The immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were behind the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State from the ruling party’s governorship race.

In an interview with reporters on Thursday at his residence in Benin, the state capital, Oshiomole explained that the PDP leaders provided the evidence that was used to screen out the governor from APC primary.

He alleged that the governor forged his certificate and said that members of APC’s screening committee knew that Obaseki actually has a case to answer.

Oshiomole, however, said the ruling party didn’t want to make the mistake it made in Bayelsa state in 2019, noting that was the reason for disqualifying the governor.

The former APC chairman boasted that the APC governorship candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyanmu, will win the Edo governorship election slated for September 19.

He said, “In 2016, PDP took Obaseki to court that he forged certificates. Now, you remember one governor that said there are tax collectors, when something moved, they collected the taxes and the certificates became okay.

“But let me tell you, members of APC’s screening committee knew that the man who forged documents, even if you vote for him, you know what happened to us in Bayelsa state.

“So, I need to assure you that the decision of the screening committee members to disqualify the sitting governor was based on the evidence provided by PDP leaders in 2016, which they found to be correct and you do not repeat the same mistake twice.

“The only task we have is to go to every unit, every community, every ward, every local government area and remind them of where we stopped and ask them since we left, what new thing has been brought?

“If I failed Godwin Obaseki’s examination, by the grace of God on Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, I will score A1.”