BREAKING: As Promised, Obaseki Meets Buhari, Announces Resignation From APC

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He announced his resignation from the party on Tuesday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Recalls that last week, Obaseki had while appreciating the sustained show of solidarity, support and goodwill from Edo people and Nigerians in the face of his controversial disqualification by the APC screening committee, said he would make his next political move known after he had completed consultations with supporters and meet with President Buhari.

BIGPEN had reported that Professor Ayuba Jonathan-led APC screening committee had last week disqualified Governor Obaseki on alleged discrepancies in his educational certificates.

The Committee why explaining reasons for disqualifying Obaseki had said: “Though, His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki in his nomination form claimed to have obtained a Higher School Leaving Certificate from an Institute of Continuing Education, Benin. It was observed however that no educational certificate such as HSC is known in Nigerian educational system. Even then, the same HSC was never presented in the course of the screening exercise. The aspirant admitted that he has never collected it.”

Also, the Appeal committee led by Dr Abubakar Fari  while citing existing discrepancies in the dates on Obaseki’s University of Ibadan certificate affirmed the Governor’s disqualification.

Details later…