– Don-Pedro Obaseki, a former
gubernatorial candidate with the APC has decided to join the PDP ahead of
September 10 Edo governorship election
– Obaseki says he aims at stopping
Governor Adams Oshiomhole from imposing a “surrogate” as his successor –
Obaseki cites alleged discrimination and lack of transparency within the party
as what sparked his decision to join PDP Don-Pedro Obaseki, a former
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has defected to
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obaseki, a cousin to the APC governorship
candidate, Godwin Obaseki, made this known when he hosted some PDP leaders led
by the state chairman, Dan Orbih and the party’s governorship candidate, Osagie
Ize-Iyamu, at his Benin home on Sunday, July 24.
According to him, his decision to defect to
the PDP is aimed at stopping Governor Adams Oshiomhole from imposing a “surrogate”
as his successor.
Obaseki had declared to run for the
governorship election on the platform of the Accord Party (AP) after dumping
APC, but his name was not included in the list of aspirants recently published
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, the former
Managing Director of Daar Communications Plc cited alleged discrimination and
lack of transparency within the APC as elements that triggered his decision to
join the PDP.
“If I have decided to join my brothers, I have
decided to join this my brother (Ize-Iyamu). More than anything, I am
passionate about driving Oshiomhole and the APC out of Edo,” he said. “Edo
people should be allowed to decide who should lead them and not by imposing a
surrogate.”
Obaseki withdrew from the race for the APC
governorship ticket, 48 hours after the leadership of the party assured
aspirants in Edo state of a level playing ground in the primaries. He told
journalists that he had lost faith in the primaries of the APC. He said it was
becoming obvious to him that the outcome of the primaries was already
pre-determined to favour a particular aspirant and that the delegates were just
waiting to rubber-stamp the aspirant.
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