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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Kassim Afegbua has vowed not to support Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki for the September gubernatorial election in the state, despite his emergence as the main opposition party flag-bearer.
Speaking to Channels TV program, Politics Today on Monday, Afegbua expressed his dissatisfaction over the manner in which Obaseki won the party’s primary to emerge the PDP candidate.
Out of the 2,234 delegates from the 192 wards and 18 local government areas that participated in the PDP primary in Edo, the governor polled 1,952 votes representing 90 per cent of the available votes to emerge the party’s flag-bearer. Although he had gone into the contest unopposed after all the aspirants eventually agreed to step down for him.
But the former Edo Commissioner for Information said he was apparently aggrieved at Obaseki’s emergence as his party’s candidate shortly after dumping the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“At least, I am bold enough to come out in the open and say that I will not support Obaseki,” he said. “It would have been different if I was hiding or pretending to be supporting him and doing some damages.
“Someone cannot just join a party within 24 hours, you surrender every whim and caprice of the party to him and then you sit back and tell me that you are celebrating your Christmas early enough in the day.”
The governor will on September 19 face his main rival and governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the governorship election in the state.
