After weeks of speculations, negotiations and shifting of grounds by the political gladiators and stakeholders in the People’s Democratic Party in Edo state, Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki has defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Peoples Democratic Party, said this in her official Twitter handle which read: “The governor of Edo State, H. E. @GovernorObaseki has defected to our great Party, the @OfflcialPDPNig. The declaration was made this afternoon at the state Secretariat of our party in Benin city, Edo State.
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The move is the culmination of about two weeks of intense negotiation by the Obaseki camp from the APC and the stakeholders in the PDP.
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