Perhaps, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, may have to go back to Nigeria’s school of governance to learn the practical rudiments of Nigerian Politics 101 – which teaches you that ‘the political enemy of your friend, is not necessarily your friend’.

Yesterday, a court sitting in Port Harcourt granted an injunction stopping the governor from participating in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primaries, slated for Thursday, to pick its governorship candidate.

It was another Port Harcourt-based court that granted the order stopping the political foes of Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, led by his predecessor, the Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, from laying claims to the acting national chairmanship of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – a move that assisted Adams Oshiomhole, the embattled National Chairman of the ruling APC, and frustrated Amaechi in his bid to take control of the national structure of the party, ahead of the 2023 presidential election, which he is said to be interested in.

Amaechi’s protege, Chief Victor Giadom, was stopped by the Port Harcourt court from parading himself as the APC’s acting national chairman, in an extension of the supremacy battle between Wike and Amaechi, that has now spilled over to Edo State where Obaseki was counting on the same Wike – a sworn political foe of his key supporter, Amaechi, – to assist him secure the PDP ticket.

And then, there is the suspicion by the PDP apparatchik that Obaseki’s deal with APC governors is to return to the party after he wins the Edo governorship election on PDP’s platform.

As the intrigues continue, the Port Harcourt court, ruling on a suit filed by the leading PDP governorship aspirant in Edo State, Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama -an ally of Wike -restrained Obaseki from participating in the PDP’s primary pending the determination of the suit.
The ruling of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, came the same day another aspirant, Mr. Gideon Ikhine, stepped down for Obaseki.
Obaseki, who just defected to the party from the APC, was screened last week by the PDP Screening Committee.

He had earlier been granted waiver by the party after his defection from the APC.
The suit has the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, as the first defendant.
Other defendants are Emmanuel Ogidi, Kingsley Chinda, Debekeme, James Manager, Ajibola Muraina, the PDP, Obaseki and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as second to ninth defendants respectively.

Ogbeide-Ihama, through his lawyers, Mr. Donald Denwigwe (SAN) and Chief F. Orbih, SAN, and leader of PDP in Edo State, had asked the court to stop Obaseki because his defection to the party, a few days to the primary, was unreasonable and aimed at destabilising other aspirants.

The court, presided over by Justice E. A. Obile, after listening to the submission of Denwigwe and Orbih, ordered the defendants not to allow Obaseki or any member or non-member of the party other than those that have purchased forms and were screened within the time stated in the timetable to contest for Thursday’s primary.

The judge also ordered that order and other processes be served on Secondus, Ogidi and Chinda by substituted means at their residences in Port Harcourt.

The order and other processes are also to be served on the PDP at its national headquarters in Abuja and Obaseki at the Government House in Benin-City.

The court adjourned till tomorrow ( Wednesday) on the eve of the primary election to hear the motion on notice.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/06/23/with-a-friend-like-wike-obaseki-meets-his-pdps-waterloo-almost/

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Ewooooooo!
6 billion Edo money gone like DT?

Obadeki, they have finally danced with ur career!

fighting the structure that brought u in is a very unreasonable mistake at least d guy for wait till second term but some losers pushed him into d dungeon like they did to people b4 him.

once obaseki losses now ,all they will shout is democracy is in trouble n they will go back to their hole till they find another person to destroy

It seems South South are very much interested in 2023. Y are they fighting themselves, they should unite like the other regions and put forward a good, strong and viable candidate.

Okay.

Ugly Obaseki is incompetent and dumb.

Wike knows Obaseki can't be trusted

And Wike needs PDP dead or alive for 2023 after spending on them like fatherxmas.. . Unfortunately for PDP would trade again in 2023 and another money bag like Atiku would show up and pick all tickets



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Hmmm

all this your analysis self.. you have time

Politicians are very wise.

Obaseki screamed godfatherism in APC as a decoy to curry favor from the unsuspecting public. APC went ahead with primary election where the people themselves elect their candidate.

He went to PDP where they want us to believe there is no godfatherism. First, he shared 6billion for the crooks in PDP, he wanted to maneuver his way to be the sole candidate so that other candidates can step down for him. Is that not Godfatherism?

Think about it!

Salewa95:
Politicians are very wise.

Obaseki screamed godfatherism in APC as a decoy to curry favor from the unsuspecting public. APC went ahead with primary election where the people themselves elect their candidate.

He went to PDP where they want us to believe theirs is no godfatherism. First, he shared 6billion for the crooks in PDP, he wanted to maneuver his way to be the sole candidate so that other candidates can step down for him. Is that not Godfatherism?

Think about it!

Amazing.. our state Governor has behaved so desperately.. not good at all

Let's wait n see how all these unfold in the coming hours. Obaseki might still resolve the whole thing with them. Na money e go chop.

Obaseki didn't weigh his options well before departing to PDP. He's now in Limbo... Even if he finally gets the ticket, he will be faced with an avalanche of litigations left, right and centre..... Mis-calculated step