Oshiomole Threatens To Sue PDP If It Adopts Obaseki As Governorship Candidate
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, said on Tuesday that his party will go to court to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki’s certificates if he is fielded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September governorship election in Edo State.
Governor Obaseki formally resigned from the APC Tuesday morning from the APC, the platform he became governor of the state in 2016.
He is believed to be heading to the PDP, where he is likely to contest the
gubernatorial election.
Oshiomhole who spoke at the Court of Appeal premises said the party will take
Obaseki to court over the alleged discrepancies in academic qualifications if
the opposition party in the state presents him as its governorship candidate.
“Fortunate enough, it was the PDP that exposed him in 2016. PDP filed a case at
the Federal High Court, amplifying every forgery segments in his certificate. APC
just managed to escape that because PDP filed out of time and the case was
struck out,” Oshiomhole told reporters.
The APC stated further: “Now, the case has life so when they field him, we will
be at the court to adopt what PDP filed before the court against him with
additional evidence we now have against him. So, we can’t wait to have PDP
field him as their candidate.” Oshiomhole noted that soon, the boys will be
separated from the men. “So far, we are good, we will soon separate the boys
from the men. He has had a good day abusing, saying half truth against me,
that’s fine.” According to him, Obaseki has that democratic right to leave or
join any party of his choice. “It is his right to leave APC, there is no
compulsory membership of a party. A political party is a voluntary association,
if you want to stay, you stay, if you want to leave, you leave. He has
exercised that democratic right. However, from my point of view, it is a good
radiance to bad rubbish,” he remarked
He explained that the issue of his disqualification from contesting under the
APC is about his certificate. “When you forged a certificate like you saw in
the case of Bayelsa state,
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