Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has been qualified for the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), having passed the screening which he described as ‘fair and professionally done’.
Speaking after the screening exercise which was done on Saturday, Obaseki stated that he had presented the same academic certificates which were the basis for his disqualification by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The screening was fair, it was very professionally done. You could see objectivity and I presented all my certificates- my secondary school, higher school, university, and my National Youth Service Certificates so that they can look at them and see if there are inconsistencies in them,” he said.
The PDP governorship primary election will be conducted on Thursday, June 25 and the governor is to contest against Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, Gideon Ikhine, and Kenneth Imansuangbon who were also cleared by the Screening Committee.
The West African Pilot News reported that Obaseki was disqualified by a seven-man screening committee of the APC led by Professor Jonathan Ayuba, over “multiple inconsistencies in his presented academic certificates.”
“Governor Godwin Obaseki was deemed ineligible by the screening committee over multiple inconsistencies in his presented academic certificates, including a Higher School Leaving Certificate the Governor claimed to have obtained from an Institute of Continuing Education in Benin City, Edo State,” the Committee had said.
On Tuesday Obaseki renounced his APC after meeting with Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Muhammadu Buhari.
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