A screening committee constituted by the All Progressive Congress(APC) has disqualified Governor Godwin Obaseki from contesting in the party’s primaries billed to hold on the 22nd of this month.
The seven-member committee led by professor Ayuba Jonathan disqualified Obaseki alongside Matthew Aigbuhuenze Iduoriyekemwen, Chris Ogiemwonyi and cleared Osaro Obazee, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, and Dr. Pius Odubu to vie in the primaries election.
The panel noted that the decision by both Obaseki and Iduoriyekemwen to drag the APC and the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to court in defiance to the provision of the APC constitution as the basis for the decision.
The panel particularly picked holes with the National Youth Service Certificate (NYSC) and the testimonial of the Institute of Continuing Education Benin city submitted by Governor Obaseki.
In response, Governor Obaseki has described the decision of the committee as “an open how of shame.”
In a statement released by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said, “We have watched the mockery of the democratic process, which Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is administering and superintending over in our great party the All Progressives Congress (APC). It has been an unfortunate, disheartening, and dreadful spectacle.
“It is unfortunate that this open show of shame, illegality and travesty of justice is the brand of democracy which Comrade Oshiomhole has reduced the APC into. The situation is quite saddening because this is a party supposedly reputed for change, equity and social justice.
“We have therefore decided that it would be an effort in futility to appeal whatever the unjust outcome of the evaluation and screening process of the APC will be, especially when Comrade Oshiomhole has declared that he is the Supreme Court and ultimate determiner of the fate and future of our great party.
“We wish Oshiomhole luck in his maladministration of the party and trust that the Almighty will help our country to find the path to true liberty, freedom, and justice.
“We call on all party members and the teeming supporters of Governor Obaseki to remain calm and await further directives.”
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