Tag: Obaseki
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Edo primary: Court adjourns to June 17
The Federal High Court in Benin, yesterday, adjourned hearing in the suit seeking to stop the APC from adopting the direct mode of primary to nominate the party’s governorship for Edo State to June 17. The primary has been fixed for June 22. The presiding judge, Mohammed Umar, restrained himself from hearing the matter following…
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Edo Governorship: Obaseki speaks after screening, says ‘No justice in Oshiomhole’s led APC’
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said his re-election bid under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a narrow chance of success. This, he said, was based on his observation of special interest displayed by the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in the process. Obaseki expressed the fear on Wednesday night at…
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JUST IN: University of Ibadan wades in Obaseki’s alleged certificate forgery scandal
The Management of University of Ibadan (UI) has confirmed that the Edo state governor, Mr Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, graduated from the institution. According to a statement by the university’s Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi Faluyi, the Governor gained admission to the university in 1976 and graduated in 1979 with a Second Class Honours (Lower Division) in Classics.…
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Edo: INEC confirms direct primary for APC; indirect for other parties, Obaseki reacts
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that the All Progressives Congress in Edo will select its candidate for the September governorship election through direct primary. There have been disagreements between the camp of the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and that of Edo State Governor over the mode to be used…
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Obaseki’s Covid-19 argument for indirect primary illogical – Ize-Iyamu
A leading governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has described arguments put forward by Governor Godwin Obaseki to back his preference for indirect mode of governorship primary election on June 22 as illogical. He insisted the direct type of governorship primary election, approved on…
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JUST IN: APC displays Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu, four other Edo guber aspirants’ credentials
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday displayed certificates of all the six governorship aspirants seeking the party’s ticket ahead of the September 19 Edo State governorship election. The credentials of Governor Godwin Obaseki and five other aspirants, who have bought, completed and submitted the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms on display…
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APC Releases Edo Governor, Obaseki’s WAEC Result
The All Progressives Congress has made public the certificates of all six governorship aspirants seeking the party’s ticket in Edo State ahead of the primary election. According to the document placed on the notice board of the party at the National Secretariat in Abuja, Governor Obaseki has three credits and three passes in his 1973…
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I’m not like those who burn building to cover up certificate issues – Obaseki
The supremacy battle for the soul of Edo State politics between Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman and Governor Godwin Obaseki got messier at the weekend after the later reportedly said he was not like those who burn building to cover up certificate issues. The feud between the two men has…
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Edo 2020: I challenge you to open debate on moral uprightness, Obaseki’s deputy, Shaibu tells Oshiomhole, Ize-Iyamu, others
Apparently peeved by the way things are unfolding ahead of Edo All Progressives Congress, APC primaries, Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu has challenged National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other governorship aspirants in Edo State to an open debate on moral uprightness and service delivery. Shaibu who has since turned his back on his…
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Covid-19: Direct primaries can’t hold in Edo, Obaseki warns Oshiomhole
Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has insisted that there would be no direct primary in the state. He stressed that only indirect primary could hold in the state in accordance with the rule gazetted in newspapers on Friday. The new rule partly reads, “That in respect of political gatherings for the purpose of conducting primaries…