{"id":26300,"date":"2020-06-16T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26300"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:37:10","slug":"what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike","title":{"rendered":"What Oshiomhole said about Obaseki joining PDP after meeting Govs Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said he will not speculate on any plan by the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki is believed to seeking another platform to realize his second-term bid, after the APC disqualified him from contesting in the June 22 primaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor last week met with two PDP Governors \u2013 Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom state.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole, speaking after a meeting of APC\u2019s National Working Committee (NWC) with President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, on Monday, said: \u201cI don\u2019t know about exit. What we see from your media, electronic and print, is that he visited a number of PDP governors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>\u201cWe read from electronic and print that those consultations may have to do with his plan and so on. But we are not here to speculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state, Tony Aziegbemi, has claimed Obaseki and all his loyalists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/06\/15\/breaking-edo-obaseki-deputy-entire-apc-structure-to-join-pdp-chairman\/\">were set to join the party.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-14\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said he will not speculate on any plan by the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obaseki is believed to seeking another platform to realize his second-term bid, after the APC disqualified him from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,376,65],"class_list":["post-26300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-oshiomhole","tag-pdp"],"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>What Oshiomhole said about Obaseki joining PDP after meeting Govs Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said he will not speculate on any plan by the\" \/>\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\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Oshiomhole said about Obaseki joining PDP after meeting Govs Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said he will not speculate on any plan by the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-16T13:37:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"What Oshiomhole said about Obaseki joining PDP after meeting Govs Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-16T13:37:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Oshiomhole\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-oshiomhole-said-about-obaseki-joining-pdp-after-meeting-govs-wike\",\"name\":\"What Oshiomhole said about Obaseki joining PDP after meeting Govs Wike - 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