The screening committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its Edo gubernatorial primaries could not have disqualified Governor Godwin Obaseki without help from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole disclosed this while addressing his supporters in Benin City on Thursday.
He said that the screening committee relied on the documents supplied by the PDP when the party took Obaseki to court in 2016.
Oshiomhole noted that PDP’s suit could have succeeded if the party did not file it out of time.
The former governor said that by disqualifying Obaseki, the APC wanted to avoid a repeat of the Bayelsa situation, where its candidate’s election was invalidated because of issues with his deputy’s certificate.
Oshiomhole said, “PDP took Obaseki to the court that he forged certificate.
“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 they know that the man who has forged documents even if you vote for him, you know what happened to us in Bayelsa; so I need to assure you that the decision of the screening committee to disqualify the sitting governor was based on the evidence provided by PDP which they found to be correct and you do not repeat the same mistake twice.
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“The only task we have is to go to every ward, every unit, every local government, and every community and remind them of where we stopped and ask them since we left what new thing has been brought?
“If I fail GO (Godwin Obaseki) exam, by the grace of God on POI (Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu) I will score A1. It is not unusual to mislead people but it will be unusual after misleading them, you continue on that dangerous part.
“We have a duty to correct it; I assure you there are no personal issues whatsoever.”
Mr. Oshiomhole,your talk talk is making Obaseki very popular, l have always casted my vote for APC but recently l discovered that PDP is made up of BRAINS. Why….APC was blind and deaf to understand PDP purpose of postponing it’s primary election which APC hurriedly did thereby putting the cart before the horse and PDP picked the horse and left the cart with no puller