Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, who is the Chairman PDP Edo State Governorship Primaries Committee, said this during the primaries on Thursday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin.
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The Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Governor Atiku Bagudu, confirmed this to State House correspondents at the end of party’s virtual NEC meeting held in Abuja on Thursday.
In a statement in Benin on Wednesday, the aspirant debunked the rumour that he has accepted to step down for the governor.
Aziegbemi gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin on Tuesday.
Wike told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that some members of the National Working Committee of the PDP are sycophants and tax collectors who will never tell the truth.
The PDP noted that since Ize-Iyamu “emerged as a candidate through the crudest governorship election primary ever, in the history of our nation, the people of Edo State had written off the APC, turned the party into a butt of street joke as well as a new metaphor for disdain for the people”.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who went round to monitor the situation in the Edo State capital, reports that several houses were submerged by the flood and others destroyed.
Obaseki was screened at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.
Seventeen members of the executive committee, led by the ward’s Vice Chairman, Adizetu Jafaru, and Secretary, Emuakemeh Sule, said this in Abuja on Saturday while meeting with the APC National Working Committee.
The Governors Forum also described the coming of the Edo State Governor as a welcome development.
The chairperson said this while addressing newsmen in Auchi.
Reports on Thursday had it that the former Deputy Governor stepped down for Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP Chairman in Edo State, Dr Tony Aziegbemi, received Obaseki and his supporters into the party.
Abubakar, in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Paul Ibe, in Abuja on Friday, welcomed Obaseki to the PDP, which he described as “a truly people’s party.”
The factional Chairman, Anslem Ojezua, made known the rejection in a statement he issued on Friday in Benin.
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday in Abuja, said the decision was predicated on exigencies of party activities.
The party had cleared Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Hon. Osaro Obaze and Dr. Pius Odubu to contest the primaries.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at the commission’s second virtual consultative meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ojezua is leading a faction of the APC loyal to Governor Godwin Obaseki before his resignation on June 16 from the party.
Oshiomhole said this on Monday when he briefed State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting he and members of party’s National Working Committee had with the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, at the State House, Abuja.