By Lucky Isibor,
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has vowed he would not appeal the outcome of the All Progressives Congress, APC gubernatorial screening where he was disqualified from contesting the party’s Edo State governorship primary election slated for 22 June, describing the exercise as disheartening and a dreadful spectacle.
In a statement by Governor Obaseki’s Special Adviser on Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie accused the former Governor of Edo State and APC national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of master minding Obaseki’s disqualification pointing out that the party has been reduced to a shrine of illegality and travesty of Justice.
Governor Godwin Obaseki was today disqualified by the APC Governorship Screening Committee from participating in the Edo State governorship primary of the party.
“We have watched the mockery of 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.
“We had initially asserted that going by the open display and enthronement of illegality by one man in the party that comprises several organs and eminent personalities, there is no way that Governor Godwin Obaseki would get a fair assessment in the run-up to the nomination of candidates to fly the flag of the party in the forthcoming Edo gubernatorial election.
“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 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.
While wishing the APC national chairman well in what the statement described as the maladministration of the party, Osagie called on all party members and supporters of Governor Obaseki to remain calm and await further directives.
“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,” the statement said.
Meanwhile former Minister of State, Works, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi has described the screening exercise as rubbish. He stated this while speaking with reporters after the announcement of the screening committee.
According to him “what is the difference between Chris and Christopher. I have served as a minister in this country,” he said.
The aspirant said he would take his case to the appeal panel.
