From the just announced local government by local government results of the Edo State governorship primary election of the Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, held on Monday in the 192 wards of the18 local government areas of the state, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has recorded an overwhelming victory in the election. He is therefore set to…
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…
Edo 2020: Ikhine Set to Step Down as Obaseki, Deputy Seek Reelection in PDP
One of the three governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Gideon Ikhine, an engineer, may have caved in to pressure to step down for the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki who is seeking to fly the flag of the party for his re-election after dumping the All Progressives Congress,…
Benin High Court Reserves Judgment Until June 25 in Suit Challenging Ize-Iyamu’s Membership of APC, Waiver to Contest Election
An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin will on June 25, 2020 determine whether or not one of the frontline governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is a member of the party. The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Ahamioje will also rule on the validity of…
PDP Governorship Aspirants Stay Away As Obaseki formally joins Party
After much prevarication, Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki has formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Until this Friday when he took the bold step, Obaseki had been floating politically with no party affiliation since he resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC on Tuesday, June 16 following his disqualification from contesting in the…
I am Prepared to Provide Leadership That Will Lead This Party to Victory – Obaseki
Full speech by the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki at the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he formally joined the party on Friday, June 19, 2020. Mr. Chairman, members of the state committee of PDP, teeming supporters and members of PDP, I am here this afternoon to inform you that…
Edo APC Can Hold Direct Primary, Appeal Court Rules
The Appeal Court sitting in Benin on Thursday cleared the way for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to conduct its primary election adopting the direct mode to select its governorship candidate for the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial poll in Edo State. By this decision, the appellate court has set aside the June 8, 2020 order…
Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu’s Aspiration Gets a Boost as Governorship Aspirant Steps Down for Him
One of the three governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo State cleared to contest the June 22, 2020 primary election of the party has stepped down. Osaro Obazee, former chairman of Oredo local government council, on Wednesday, announced that he was stepping down to support the aspiration of Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a…
2023 Politics Plays Out in The Edo APC Crisis
The suspension of Adams Oshiomole as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, may quicken the expected implosion of the ruling party as Victor Giadom, deputy national secretary of the party, Wednesday, declared himself the acting national secretary in Abuja. Giadom told journalists in Abuja that his claim is based on the authority…
Case Against Ize-Iyamu’s Waiver, Membership of APC Suffers Another Adjournment
Now to Be Heard three Days to Primary Election. A Benin High Court, on Wednesday adjourned hearing till Friday, June 19, in the suit seeking to restrain the All Progressives Congress (APC) from recognizing Osagie Ize-Iyamu as an aspirant in the party’s governorship primary election scheduled for June 22, 2020.Justice Emmanuel Ahamioje, the presiding judge,…
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