The crisis rocking the Edo State politics took a new dimension on Friday with Governor Godwin Obaseki asking the Edo people to give him a second term ticket because he had worked for it.
Obaseki, who received the Nigeria Union of Teachers’ best performing governor award for 2019, said he had fulfilled most of his promises to the people.But in a quick reaction to Obaseki’s comment, leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the state under the aegis of the Edo Peoples Movement, said Obaseki did not deserve a second term and that they would shop for a better candidate that would be the party’s candidate in 2020.
“I have said it clearly and I told my cabinet members that second term for me is non-negotiable. I am demanding it because I deserve it and I think I have earned it. We need to have it so we can continue what we are doing today.” The group also called on the state chairman of the party, Mr Anslem Ojezua, to resign, saying he had failed to solve the crisis bedeviling the party.
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