{"id":225824,"date":"2020-06-12T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=225824"},"modified":"2020-06-12T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:33:34","slug":"breaking-i-wont-appeal-my-disqualification-from-participating-in-apc-primary-election-says-governor-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=225824","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: I Won\u2019t Appeal My Disqualification From Participating In APC Primary Election, Says Governor Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo State, has said he will not appeal the outcome of the screening process.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The incumbent, who is seeking reelection into office, was disqualified at the screening process for the primary of the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said, \u201cWe have watched the mockery of democratic process, which Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is administering and superintending over in our great party, the All Progressives Congress. It has been an unfortunate, disheartening and dreadful spectacle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/06\/BREAKING-I-Won\u2019t-Appeal-My-Disqualification-From-Participating-In-APC-Primary-Election-Says-Governor-Obaseki.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on all party members and the teeming supporters of Governor Obaseki to remain calm and await further directives.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo State, has said he will not appeal the outcome of the screening process. The incumbent, who is seeking reelection into office, was disqualified at the screening process for the primary of the All Progressives Congress. In a statement on Friday, Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Communication Strategy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,530,533],"class_list":["post-225824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-edo","tag-godwin-obaseki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}