President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the Edo State governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu for the September 19 election.
The Chairman of APC Caretaker Committee, Alhaji Mai Malla Buni, who revealed this with photographs while briefing State House correspondents after presenting the APC candidate to the President on Friday. He said that Buhari gave his blessings and presented the party’s flag to the candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Pastor Osagie stated at the briefing that his meeting and endorsement by President Buhari has laid to rest, the insinuations that “President Buhari did not want to see him”, alleging that it was a falsehood being spread by the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Also speaking, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State described his Edo State counterpart and candidate of the PDP in the September 19 election, Godwin Obaseki, as a liability to the PDP.
Ganduje said APC is contesting against a governor who has already failed most woefully.
Pastor Ize-Iyamu, however; denied allegation that 14 members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly sat in his house on Thursday to impeach the Speaker of the House and elect a new one.