By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
An All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Edo State, Don Pedro Obaseki, has announced his withdrawal from party’s primary election slated for June 18, 2016 , saying the outcome of the exercise was already predetermined to favour a particular aspirant.
He said he, on Thursday, he stumbled on a document that showed that apart from the favored aspirants, other aspirants in the race were only wasting their time and resources, adding that he has lost faith in the primary process.
Obaseki, who spoke at a media briefing in Benin, however, said he hoped to contest the governorship election under an undisclosed new platform and that he would make known his next political destination in the days to come.
Obaseki, who is a relative of another aspirants, Godwin Obaseki, said the coming primaries of the APC would be the most expensive in the history of the state as he alleged that the about 3,000 APC delegates would be bribed with N200,000 each
He said, “As an academic and someone, who is guided by thesis, antithesis and syntheses, I elected to withdraw my intention to contest the primaries of the APC. I will not tell you that I am no longer a member of the APC, but I am more interested in being an EDO (Empower, Develop and Opportunities) man than an APC man.
“I will rather be an EDO man than being an APC. I am not running for the election as an APC candidate anymore; I am running for the election as EDO candidate on September 10.
“I have therefore elected upon wide consultations with my immediate and extended family, supporters, friends and well wishers, not to pay.the unwholesome of N5,500,000 for the expression of interest and nomination forms of the APC.”
