{"id":40893,"date":"2020-06-19T16:57:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=40893"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:33:58","slug":"edo-governor-obaseki-joins-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/edo-governor-obaseki-joins-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Governor, Obaseki, Joins PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

…As APC Says It’s Not Surprised<\/p>\n

The governor made the announcement on Friday at the Party\u2019s Secretariat in Benin City, the Edo State capital.<\/p>\n

Revealing via his confirmed Twitter handle, the governor wrote, \u201cI have officially joined the @OfficialPDPNig to advance my ambition to seek re-election as Governor of Edo State.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, as always, remain committed to engendering good governance and sustainable development of our dear state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, the PDP announced the defection on its verified Twitter handle, saying, \u201cThe Governor of Edo State, H. E. Governor Obaseki has defected to our great Party, the @OfficialPDPNig. The declaration was made this afternoon at the state Secretariat of our party in Benin city, Edo State. Power to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the video that accompanied the tweet, Obaseki made his declaration to all Nigerians \u201cwithin the state and across the country to become a member of PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was earlier reported that the National Working Committee of the Party considered waivers for the governor while it postponed its primary election scheduled for June 19 and June 20.<\/p>\n

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said, \u201cThe NWC of the party has postponed the Edo State governorship primary election earlier scheduled for Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 2020, to a new date of Tuesday, June 23, 2020. This decision is predicated on the exigencies of party activities.\u201d<\/p>

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Obaseki, who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress following his disqualification from its primary election, had recently met with some PDP governorsto perfect his defection plan.<\/p>\n

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, the governorship election in the state is slated for September 19.<\/p>\n

APC reacts to Obaseki\u2019s defection to PDP<\/p>\n

The All progressives Congress (APC) says the decision by Governor Godwin Obaseki to defect to the opposition People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) did not come to it as a surprising development.<\/p>\n

Spokesperson of the APC, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu gave the reaction while speaking with journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has not come to us as a surprise. We knew he had defected long ago because he resigned his membership of the party which we have accepted,\u201d Issa-Onilu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can\u2019t defect twice. So if he is defecting again, we don\u2019t know whether what he has just done now is news any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governor made the announcement on Friday at the Party\u2019s Secretariat in Benin City, the Edo State capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6469],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-40893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-gov-godwin-obaseki"],"yoast_head":"\nEdo Governor, Obaseki, Joins PDP - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/edo-governor-obaseki-joins-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo Governor, Obaseki, Joins PDP - 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