The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revealed that he worked with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to elect Monday Okpebholo as governor and defeat his own party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2024 governorship election in Edo State.
Wike said his resolve to prevent former Governor Godwin Obaseki from installing a successor influenced his decision to back Okpebholo against the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo, whom he acknowledged was a good candidate.
The former Rivers State governor made the revelation on Monday, October 12, during a stakeholders’ meeting of the Rainbow Coalition in Abuja, where he claimed that the political alliance played a significant role in the APC’s victory.
“I said I would not allow Obaseki to produce a successor, even though the candidate was a very good candidate, a very good candidate who was the chairman of a bank. He came to see me more than three times, but I told him, ‘Listen, I know you are a good candidate, but for this election, I am sorry because this election is between us and the man who is bringing you, called Obaseki.
‘Returning you would be like bringing him back, so I am sorry, you have to fail.’ And he failed,” the minister declared.
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Wike reveals how he worked against Obaseki’s ‘good candidate’’ and made Okpebholo governor of Edo state
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