Edo 2020 Imbroglio: Jittery Obaseki seeks Tinubu's intervention in Lagos

By Dansu Peter 

As the political supremacy between Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his estranged godfather and national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole rages ahead of the governorship primaries of the the ruling party in the state, fresh report according to Daily Times suggests that the governor has resorted to the intervention of the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to broker peace. 

Already, the primaries is scheduled to hold next month.

According to Daily Times, multiple sources said Obaseki made the move to see Tinubu after the National Working Committee of the party announced the adoption of direct primaries and waiver for a new entrant into the party and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

Both steps were believed to have been taken in order to put Obaseki at a disadvantage following his face-off with the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, which had remained unresolvable.

Oshiomhole, a former Governor of Edo State, is believed to be backing the candidacy of Ize-Iyamu for the governorship poll.

Though it could not be ascertained when Obaseki would visit Tinubu, it was learnt that the meeting will likely take place in the home of the former Governor of Lagos State in his Ikoyi home in Lagos.

Source: Daily Times