{"id":26565,"date":"2020-06-23T16:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26565"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:47:03","slug":"court-stops-gov-obaseki-from-participating-in-pdp-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/court-stops-gov-obaseki-from-participating-in-pdp-primaries","title":{"rendered":"Court stops Gov. Obaseki from participating in PDP primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>A Federal High court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has restrained the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governirship primary election.<\/p>\n<p>One of the party\u2019s aspirants, Omoregir Ogbeide-Ihiama had approached the court asking for the Governor, who just joined the PDP from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to be stopped from participating in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Omoregir Ogbeide-Ihama argued that since Obaseki was not part of the candidates screened by the PDP National Working Committee, NWC initially before the date on the timetable lapsed, he should not be allowed to participate in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Harcourt High Court, presided over by Hon. Justice E. A. Obile, hence granted Ogbeide-Ihama\u2019s prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki had last week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/06\/19\/breaking-edo-obaseki-officially-joins-pdp\/\">joined the Peoples Democratic Party<\/a>, PDP officially.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/06\/20\/edo-guber-pdp-grants-gov-obaseki-waiver\/\">He was later granted a waiver<\/a>\u00a0by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has granted to contest in their governorship election primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: A Federal High court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has restrained the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governirship primary election. One of the party\u2019s aspirants, Omoregir Ogbeide-Ihiama had approached the court asking for the Governor, who just joined the PDP from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[694,697,65],"class_list":["post-26565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-edo-state","tag-obaseki","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>Court stops Gov. 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