Edo 2020:Don't return to APC,Fayose warns Obaseki

Former Ekiti state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has warned the reelected Governor of  Edo State,Godwin Obaseki not to return to APC.

He congratulated the governor on his victory at the just concluded governorship poll held on the 19th September, 2020. 

Obaseki who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in June after he was disqualified by the APC, defeated Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC in the election results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday.

Fayose in a statement, on Sunday, noted that the PDP came to the rescue of Obaseki when he was disqualified, saying he should disregard all pressure to return to the former party.

“I congratulate Governor Godwin Obaseki and urge him to see this victory as a challenge by the people of Edo State to do more for them. 

Most importantly, I wish to remind him that PDP came to his rescue in his hour of political need and he should remain in the party, not minding the pressure that will be mounted on him,” he said.

The PDP chieftain explained that the results of the election was a confirmation of the fact credible and free and fair election is possible in the country when the Federal Government allowed the electoral umpire and the security were allowed to do their work without interference.