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| Governor Abdullahi Ganduje |
Ganduje, who is also the Governor of Kano State, also said his counterpart, the Governor of Rivers State and Chairman of the PDP Edo State Governorship Campaign Committee, Mr. Nyesom Wike would be kept in isolation till the end of the election.
The Edo State governorship election is coming up on September 19.
Thirteen candidates, which include the candidates of the APC and PDP, will be contesting the election.
Ganduje, speaking after the inauguration of the 49-member committee said the Edo State governorship election will be a walk over for APC as his committee’s members were election veterans.
According to Ganduje, there would be no soft spot for Obaseki who was until few weeks ago a member of the APC and Vice Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF).
Asked if APC governors would have soft spot for Obaseki, who just left the APC, he said: “There is no soft spot for anything like that. The issue is that we know PDP made Wike their chairman, I assure you, we will isolate Wike. We will put him in an isolation centre and before he recovers, the election would over.”
Ganduje had earlier said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, took Governor Obaseki because he is in control of the state treasury.
He however, said the APC was not bothered about the governor Nyesom Wike - led Peoples Democratic Party National Campaign Council because the APC has a candidate who has all it takes to win the governorship election.
Osagie Ize - Iyamu, the party’s candidate for the September 19 governorship election in Edo, would, amongst other major contenders, face Obaseki, who recently decamped from the APC to join the Peoples Democratic Party.