A media assistant from Adams Oshiomhole, the suspended National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Victor Oshioke, said Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki’s defection from the ruling party would not affect the ‘victory’ of the party in the forthcoming election.
Mr Oshioke, who spoke on Friday’s “Politics Today” program on Channels Television, said Mr Obaseki isn’t popular in the state.
“There is no way Godwin Obaseki can upset APC in Edo State because he doesn’t have the numbers,” he said. “He is unpopular in Edo State, they know, and that is why today he is there and I can tell you something, where are the APC bigwigs you saw behind him? There was nobody, Just some little PDP riffraff.”
Mr Oshioke has also pointed out that Mr Obaseki left the party “long before his official defection.”
“I believe that Godwin Obaseki’s defection is an anti-climax. He has since moved from APC, he has only been working against APC. I think it’s just good riddance to bad rubbish. Godwin Obaseki has since left APC and this is what we have been saying for months. He had been negotiating with PDP.
“Everything was set, he (Obaseki) was only there trying to destroy APC and today that he has gone, APC in Edo State in united and victory is ahead,” he added.
“There was nobody of value with Obaseki there today. Even the Speaker of the Edo State house of assembly has abandoned him already,” the official also said.
Mr Obaseki left the APC officially on Friday, following months of political conflict with his predecessor, Mr Oshiomhole.
PDP chairman Uche Secondus and other parity chieftains such as Bukola Saraki, Atiku Abubakar welcomed him. He was also given a waiver to contest for the governorship ticket for the party.
