In the wake of his recent travails and inability to bag the candidacy for the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the governorship elections in September, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has announced his resignation from the party.
Obaseki had promised to make a decision after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and, true to his words, he did so, upon stepping out of the State House.
Obaseki was last week disqualified by the APC from participating in the party’s governorship primary slated for June 22.
Although he wants to contest for a second term in office, the APC denied the governor the chance to do that, alleging inaccuracies in his school certificates.
The governor has blamed his ordeal on the APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, with whom he has been involved in a bitter feud.
Feelers are that Obaseki is expected to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose leaders he has been meeting with since the APC’s decision.
