{"id":20703,"date":"2020-01-30T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=20703"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:15:55","slug":"buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki","title":{"rendered":"Buhari, APC on my side, not Oshiomhole\u2019s \u2013 Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has suggested that he and President Muhammadu are on one side and backed by the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state amid the face-off between him (Obaseki) and the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki said the entire party structure in Edo is one and solidly behind President Buhari and him as a governor.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Obaseki spoke with journalists in Benin, the state capital on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a party matter. We have a party chairman who has been suspended in his Ward. He has no legitimate business to act in the capacity. We will not accept any decisions from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the party, I have the 18 local government chairmen of the party behind me. The entire party structure in Edo is one. They are solidly behind the President and behind me as a governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also explained why he ordered a probe of the new five-star B\u00e9nin Specialist hospital built by his predecessor, Oshiomhole.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki had on Monday set up a Commission of Inquiry headed by Hon. Justice J.U. Oyomire (rtd) to conduct a detailed inquiry into the process leading to the conceptualization, design, construction and equipping of the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Obaseki, who spoke with journalists in Benin, the state capital on Thursday, said he ordered the probe because he was beginning to see many things he didn\u2019t understand about the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His words, \u201cWe have opened that hospital. We had a consultant there working. So much has been said about the hospital. I am beginning to see many things I don\u2019t understand. Oshiomhole did a video that went viral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only fair for Edo taxpayers to understand what happened and why they decided to build the hospital. How much was spent to build the hospital, the state of the hospital today. I cannot be held liable for something I didn\u2019t do. I want to make sure that at the end of my tenure I can explain everything that has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has suggested that he and President Muhammadu are on one side and backed by the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state amid the face-off between him (Obaseki) and the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole. Obaseki said the entire party structure in Edo is one and solidly behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,697],"class_list":["post-20703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-obaseki"],"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>Buhari, APC on my side, not Oshiomhole\u2019s \u2013 Obaseki - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has suggested that he and President Muhammadu are on one side and backed by the All Progressives\" \/>\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\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari, APC on my side, not Oshiomhole\u2019s \u2013 Obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has suggested that he and President Muhammadu are on one side and backed by the All Progressives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-30T15:15:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Godwin-Obaseki-edo-governor.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"390\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari, APC on my side, not Oshiomhole\u2019s \u2013 Obaseki\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-30T15:15:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\"},\"wordCount\":346,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Godwin-Obaseki-edo-governor.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Obaseki\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-apc-on-my-side-not-oshiomholes-obaseki\",\"name\":\"Buhari, APC on my side, not Oshiomhole\u2019s \u2013 Obaseki - 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