{"id":131110,"date":"2024-09-16T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-guber-president-tinubull-not-influence-election-first-lady-obaseki"},"modified":"2024-09-17T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:25:29","slug":"edo-guber-president-tinubull-not-influence-election-first-lady-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-guber-president-tinubull-not-influence-election-first-lady-obaseki","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: President Tinubu\u2019ll not influence election \u2014 First Lady Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The First Lady of Edo State, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, has dismissed allegations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has planned to influence the outcome of next Saturday\u2019s governorship election in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, using \u201cfederal might.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Edo First Lady said this while responding to questions during an online television interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu is smarter and wiser. He is not at their level at all. I also want to praise former President Muhammadu Buhari for his democratic stance and using federal power only to safeguard voters, not to tamper with election results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Obaseki opined that President Tinubu would not undermine democratic processes given his history as a reformer during his tenure as governor of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu, who is committed to good governance and continuity, would not disrupt the progress made in Edo under my husband\u2019s administration, especially when the state has received international recognition for its development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the father of the nation, President Tinubu would not lend his support to efforts aimed at destabilising a well-governed state. If every state governor begins to toe these paths set out in Edo and Lagos, one day we will all wake up to a good Nigeria,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The First Lady of Edo State, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, has dismissed allegations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has planned to influence the outcome of next Saturday\u2019s governorship election in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, using \u201cfederal might.\u201d The Edo First Lady said this while responding to questions during an online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":131109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[12578,254,697,945],"class_list":["post-131110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-edo-guber","tag-nigeria","tag-obaseki","tag-tinubu"],"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 guber: President Tinubu\u2019ll not influence election \u2014 First Lady Obaseki - 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