Oshiomhole, who led other members of the NWC to the meeting, also allayed fears that the party might lose Edo to the PDP if Governor Godwin Obaseki, decamps and eventually gets its governorship ticket.
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has said there would be no going back on the results of the screening of governorship aspirants for Edo last week.
Others present at the meeting were the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu as well as four members of the APC NWC, including the National Vice Chairman Barr. Inuwa Abdulkadir; National Treasurer, Adamu Panda; National Welfare Officer, Ibrahim Masari and National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu.
“It’s always for me something interesting that after you have picked your candidate by a handful of elites, you’ll now organise a rally to introduce to the members who is going to contest an election.“So we are doing everything possible, having completed the issue of screening and we have upheld the result of the screening committee, we are proceeding now to conduct the primaries, God willing, on the 22nd of June in Edo State.
“Then we have lawyers who have handled election tribunal, they know the issues that people can raise, once you have filed your nomination because the courts have said INEC cannot screen candidates, the power to screen candidates, it’s exclusively part of the party. Speaking on the possibility of the APC losing Edo State to the PDP in a situation reminiscent of the Benue experience, Oshiomhole said incumbency alone was not enough to give victory in an election, pointing out the fact that the peculiar political sentiments of Edo State would determine the winner.
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