{"id":11204,"date":"2019-06-07T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11204"},"modified":"2019-06-07T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:17:13","slug":"edo-2020-obaseki-meets-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-obaseki-meets-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Edo 2020: Obaseki meets Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the governorship election in 2020, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Friday, met behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki said his visit was private, declined to talk to State House correspondents on the purpose of his visit.<\/p>\n<p>There has been tension between him and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole, current National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The governor has been accused of being incompetent and running a one- man show in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki, while restating his commitment to serve the people, recently said that the time for sharing public funds to \u201ca few greedy politicians\u201d in the state was over.<\/p>\n<p>He had described the crisis in the state as distraction to prevent him from fulfilling his promises to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki was quoted as saying: \u201cOnly God gives power. What is going on in Edo State is the handiwork of detractors who want to frustrate the administration so we can fail in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people. But that will never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insisting that he would not bow to pressure to share the people\u2019s money to \u201ca few greedy persons,\u201d the governor added \u201cwe will continue to do our best in paying our workers and pensioners and will continue to develop the state as the time for sharing money is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the governorship election in 2020, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Friday, met behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. Obaseki said his visit was private, declined to talk to State House correspondents on the purpose of his visit. There has been tension between him and his predecessor, Adams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,694,697,177],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-edo-state","tag-obaseki","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edo 2020: Obaseki meets Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-obaseki-meets-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo 2020: Obaseki meets Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of the governorship election in 2020, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Friday, met behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. 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