Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, says he will not get
justice from a committee set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to vet
aspirants seeking to get the party’s ticket ahead of the governorship election.
The screening process lasted for about two hours at the APC
national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday.
Obaseki went through the process hours after Crusoe Osagie,
media aide to the governor, said the committee delayed him for hours.
“The governor arrived early but the screening committee was
not ready,” Osagie had said earlier in a statement on Wednesday.
“He was given the options to either wait for one hour or if
he had an appointment to keep, he could go and call them to know if they were
ready.
“The governor, who had a Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF)
meeting, went for the meeting and called when he was done, but the members of
the screening committee did not pick their phones.”
He eventually met the panel.
Speaking with journalists after the exercise, Obaseki said
he is not sure of getting justice because Adams Oshiomhole, APC national chairman,
has refused to recuse himself from the process.
“Like I said, as a party man I had to go through the
screening process but I do not believe that I will get justice because Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole is an interested party in the Edo process,” the governor said.
“One of the questions asked was why did I issue a gazette
that will prevent the party from performing direct elections in Edo. That did I
not see it as an anti-party activity?”
Oshiomhole is believed to be backing Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a
governorship aspirant, for the party’s ticket.
Ize-Iyamu had contested against Obaseki on the platform of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2016 but lost.
The APC primary election is scheduled for June 22.
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