Ahead the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC), one of the aspirants seeking to succeed governor Adams Oshiomohole of Edo state, Blessing Agbomhere has said that the preferred aspirant of the governor, Godwin Obaseki, actually worked against the party and President Muhammadu Buhari during the last general elections.
Agbomhere also said Obaseki has not officially register as a bonafide member of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking at a press conference on Monday in Abuja, Agbomhere said governor Oshiomhole must apologise to the national leadership and members of the APC or be expelled from the party “for offensive utterances made by the governor when the reconciliation committee set up by the APC national secretariat met with him.”
The governorship aspirant believed that the alleged attempt to rubbish the fact finding panel set up by the national secretariat of the APC to resolve the rancour were “being sponsored by the governor himself.”
He alleged further that “The utterances are meant by Adams Oshiomhole to tarnish the image of the National Secretariat of the APC and blackmail them to abandon Edo APC to his dictates and desperation to impose one Godwin Obaseki who is his close ally and business partner on the Edo people
“Godwin Obaseki, an Edo man who refused to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the last general election because himself and his acclaimed sponsor, the richest man in Africa wanted Goodluck in their businesses.”
When asked to justify his allegation that Obaseki did not vote for President Buhari, the accuser said: “If Obaseki can prove to Nigerians that he collected his Permanent Voter’s Card before presidential election, then we will have reason to believe that he voted for the president but if his PVC was done after the elections what does that mean? You cannot vote in an election where you don’t have a PVC.
“During the presidential election we all know he was in Lagos and not even in Edo state because most of the them believed that there was going to be trouble and that Nigeria was going to come down. He did not even participate in the election.”
