The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Friday afternoon, has officially joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Newsflash247 reports.
Newsflash247 had earlier reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, June 18, has postponed its primary election for the Edo governorship poll from Friday, June 19 to Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
In a statement released on Thursday by the Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on his twitter, saying, the party has postponed its primary election in Edo State to Tuesday, June 23rd 2020.
The governor who dumped the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday, picked up his PDP membership card at the party’s secretariat in Benin City, the state capital today.
The APC had disqualified the governor from its June 22 primary and Obaseki subsequently resigned from the party,
He later met with Nyesom Wike and Udom Emmanuel, his Rivers and Akwa Ibom counterparts, who are of the PDP and an expanded meeting involving Uche Secondus, national chairman of the PDP, and some governors held in Abuja on Wednesday.
He had been at loggerheads with Adams Oshiomhole, suspended national chairman of APC who supported him in 2016.
Oshiomhole is believed to be backing Osagie Ize-Iyamu who has been named the consensus candidate of one of the APC factions in Edo.
