Benin City, Edo state – Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo, has declared the coming governorship election in the state “a do-or-die affair”.
TimesNow.com.ng reports that the Edo state off-cycle election is slated to be held on Saturday, September 21.
Asue Ighodalo, candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP), and Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are considered the leading aspirants.
Speaking on Saturday, September 14, at the PDP grand finale rally in Benin City, the state capital, Obaseki berated Senator Adams Oshiomhole, his predecessor.
Obaseki said:
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Earlier, TimesNow.com.ng reported that the PDP said it was not disposed to signing the peace accord.
Speaking at the venue of the signing of the peace accord in Benin, the Edo state capital, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the head of the national peace committee (NPC), said he met Governor Obaseki and he told him that the PDP are not going to sign this peace accord.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
