I will never return to APC – Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said he will never return to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He left the APC in 2020 after he was disqualified and could not seek the party’s ticket for re-election.

He joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he was re-elected for second term.

Obaseki spoke in Abuja on Monday following insinuations that more PDP governors were soon to join the ruling APC.

Three PDP governors, Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) have recently joined the APC.

But Obaseki vowed never to leave PDP for the APC, describing rumours making the rounds that he intended to return to the ruling party as laughable.

He stressed that he would continue to serve Edo under the “stable, people-oriented and democratic structure” of the PDP.

Obaseki was quoted in a statement on Monday by spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, as urging Nigerians to remain steadfast in their determination of rallying on the platform of the PDP to “rescue the nation from the misrule of the APC”.

The governor, who was said to have addressed members of the PDP e-registration committee in Abuja, explained the pilot scheme would begin in Edo and Anambra states.

He said, “Nigerians must key into the e-registration exercise of the PDP as the party remains the solution to the myriads of problems confronting our nation today under the APC.

“From all indications, it is clear that the PDP remains the party that provides the appropriate platform, outlook and sense of direction to return our nation to her of pride of place in the comity of nations.”