After days of playing hard to get and so much braggadocio, the duo of Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama and Kenneth Imasuangbon, both aspirants on the platform of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State finally deferred to Obaseki making the on-going governorship primary election a walk over for the governor. Up till 8 pm on…
Edo 2020: Obaseki Set to Pick PDP Ticket Thursday Amidst Resentment by Party Faithful
The ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State has been making frantic efforts to ensure a hitch-free and harmonious governorship primary election on Thursday. Already, the governors of Oyo and Bauchi States, Seyi Makinde, and Bala Mohammed, are on ground to oversee the exercise which would be conducted using the indirect mode. Desperate effort…
Edo 2020: Imasuangbon Denies $2m ‘Settlement’ to Step Down, Insists he’s Still in The Race for PDP Ticket
With less than 24 hours to the governorship primary election of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, one of the aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket, Kenneth Imasuangbon, has denied rumour making the round that he had accepted $2 million from the state governor, Godwn Obaseki to step down for him. Imasuangbon,…
PDP Primary Election: Okowa, Party Leaders in Last-Ditch Effort to Achieve Consensus
The eventual defection of the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is ruffling feathers in the party which was all set for its governorship primary election before his dramatic entrance. Ahead of the earlier scheduled June 19 governorship primary election, three aspirants had already been screened. They are Omoregie…
Asking PDP Aspirants to Step Down for Obaseki Would Be Equal to Military Coup – Imasuangbon
Kenneth Imasuangbon, a lawyer, an educationist, and one of the three governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State chapter, in this telephone interview with Adekunbi Ero, executive editor says asking him and others to step down for the embattled governor of the state who had been ruled out of…
Edo 2020: Imasuangbon Gives APC Quit Notice
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Kenneth Imasuangbon, is confident that his party would wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC come September 19, 2020. Imasuangbon however boasted that this would only be possible if he emerges the flag-bearer at the party’s primaries. Imasuangbon,…
I will resist imposition of candidate says Imasuangbon, first Edo guber aspirant to pick nomination form
Kenneth Imasuangbon, lawyer and educationist, has emerged the first aspirant in Edo State to pick a governorship nomination form to contest for the number one elective office in the state. Imasuangbon, an aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who would be slugging it out with four other aspirants who have openly…
Edo 2020: PDP Youths, Traders Mobilise Funds for Nomination Form for Imasuangbon
…Say he’s best candidate to defeat incumbent governor. With the major opposition party in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP scheduling its primary election for between June 23 and 24, 2020 to select a candidate for the September 19 governorship election in the state, some youths in the party are rooting for Kenneth Imasuangbon,…