Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has said he will not appeal his disqualification from taking part in the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship primaries scheduled for 22 June.
In a statement by his media aide, Crusoe Osagie, the governor said it’s unnecessary to file an appeal when the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, carefully coordinated the move from the outset.
While urging peace from his followers, he urged them to wait for further directives.
“We watched the mockery of the democratic process administered and supervised by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in our great All Progressive Congress (APC) party. It was a spectacle which was terrible, disheartening and awful.
We had initially asserted that going by the open display and enthronement of illegality by one man in the party that comprises several organs and eminent personalities, there is no way that Governor Godwin Obaseki would get a fair assessment in the run-up to the nomination of candidates to fly the flag of the party in the forthcoming Edo gubernatorial election.
“It is unfortunate that this open show of shame, illegality and travesty of justice is the brand of democracy which Comrade Oshiomhole has reduced the APC into. The situation is quite saddening because this is a party supposedly reputed for change, equity and social justice”
We have therefore decided that it would be effort in futility to appeal whatever the unjust outcome of the evaluation and screening process of the APC will be, especially when Comrade Oshiomhole has declared that he is the Supreme Court and ultimate determiner of the fate and future of our great party.
We wish Oshiomhole luck in his maladministration of the party and trust that the Almighty will help our country to find the path to true liberty, freedom and justice.
We call on all party members and the teeming supporters of Governor Obaseki to remain calm and await further directives.
