Edo Guber: Adopt Obaseki As Your Candidate – Edwin Clark Tells PDP

Edwin Clark, an Ijaw leader, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to adopt Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, as their candidate for the September gubernatorial exercise.
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The APC screening committee, last Friday, disqualified Obaseki from the All Progressives Congress (APC) June 22 governorship primary election, over alleged “defective certificate.”
National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, who is said to be backing Osagie Ize-Iyamu for the exercise, has been having a running battle with Obaseki, whom he supported in 2016.
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Clark, in a statement, said he is disappointed that President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, national leader of the APC, allowed Oshiomhole to cause crisis in states, where the ruling party would have had electoral advantages.
The nationalist, who stated that he is neither a member of the PDP nor APC, described the treatment Oshiomhole has meted to Obaseki as “horrendous”.
He recounted how poor handling of issues under Oshiomhole cost the ruling party governorship seats in Zamfara, Bauchi and Adamawa States.
Clark also referred to the debacle faced by the APC in Rivers State, in the build up to the 2019 general election, where the party failed to have a candidate.
Consequently, he called on the PDP, to cede its ticket to the embattled governor, who he said has done well in office.
“The goings-on in Edo State are a repetition of what happened at the Lagos State governorship primary of the APC in 2018, where the then governor was removed in a primary, which did not exist,” the statement read.
“It was a shame that the team that was sent to Lagos to conduct the APC primaries, at the time, under the leadership of a past governor of Cross River State, who had categorically stated at a press briefing that there was no primaries and that they were going to hold the primary the following day but recanted his words and later said there were primaries held. What type of party leadership is that?
“There is no doubt that there is no one that is indispensable, but to treat fellow party and countrymen in the manner that was done to the former Lagos governor and now to Governor Obaseki, is most horrendous.
“While I am not a member of the APC or of PDP, or any other political party, for that matter, it is regrettable that the APC in Edo State is being destroyed as it was in some other states in 2019 when due to the same manipulation and rascally interferences leading to wrong decisions, the APC lost Zamfara, Bauchi and Adamawa states to the PDP and did not have candidates in Rivers State, for the elections. Situations that were sufficient to be a serious lesson for the APC on its leadership mismanagement, but it seems not so.
“It is, therefore, most disgusting that in 2020, APC is toeing that same path in Edo State. If the leadership of the APC, including Mr. President, fails to intervene in this unfortunate crisis in the Edo State, I would appeal to the PDP to take advantage of the situation and adopt Obaseki as their candidate.
“It is a golden opportunity for the PDP to take over Edo State because Governor Obaseki has so far done well. I want to believe that he will continue the good work if given a second chance. I also appeal to the people of Edo all over the world to support him to achieve his second term bid and to PDP aspirants to also sink their interest for now in the overall interest of the state.”