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Obaseki said this when he addressed his supporters along Ring Road, Benin on Tuesday

The apex court in a judgement delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim held that the Ize-Iyamu failed to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt.

The judgement was delivered barely two months after the Elections Petitions Tribunal struck out the petition by the Action Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Iboi Lucky

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kadiri Oshoakhemhe, had in a suit No: B/358/20 filed a case against the APC deputy governorship candidate and two others.

Delivering judgment, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, struck out the suit on grounds that it had become academic.

The Secretary of the tribunal, Sunday Martins, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin on Monday

Obaseki stated this in an interview with newsmen when he paid a thank-you visit to the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Monday

Just after the Edo State election in which the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki, retained his seat by defeating the candidate of the APC, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the social media came alive with a photograph saying: “Tinubu: Edo no be Lagos.”

Obaseki floored the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the September 19, 2020 poll, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, with over 84,000 voted as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission on September 20, 2020.

It is interesting that the Peoples Democratic Party, its candidate, Governor Obaseki, and the Chairman of the party’s Campaign Council for Edo State, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, all of who had initially alleged the APC had perfected the rigging of the poll, suddenly turned round, after seeing the results being declared going its way, to say the election was now the best thing to have happened since Nigeria’s independence and that INEC had redeemed its seeming sullen image.

Obaseki won the election with 307,955 votes to defeat the closest rival and the All Progressives Congress candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who scored 223,619

Oshiomhole, who was sweating from exercises in his gym, spoke in a video seen on Wednesday

Buni, who is also the Governor of Yobe State, met with Ize-Iyamu in the company of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State at his Abuja residence on Wednesday behind closed doors.

The prophesy is coming after that on the Edo State governorship election by the Seer was confirmed with the victory of the incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki

This was revealed in a statement by the Secretary of the tribunal, Sunday Martins, on Tuesday

Obaseki, who was reacting to allegations that he plans to chase Oshiomhole out of Edo State, spoke on a live programme on Arise TV on Tuesday

Obaseki, who spoke on Arise TV, was answering questions on his political future after the Peoples Democratic Party offered him the platform to realise his second term ambition

Oshiomhole, following his face-off with Obaseki, had ensured the exclusion of the governor from the APC governorship primaries, thus leading to his defection to the PDP, to which Melaye also belongs

The statement was released shortly after Obaseki was declared winner of the poll in which his closest rival, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, ran on the platform of the President’s party, All Progressives Congress

The Independent National Electoral Commission announced the result on Sunday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.