Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has formally congratulated Mr. Godwin Obaseki on his emergence as the candidate of the APC saying that he looked forward to an issue based campaign with him.

EDO State Director of Poverty Alleviation Agency, Mrs. Evelyn Igbafe, yesterday blamed her political differences with the APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki for the attack on her in her Benin residence yesterday. Mrs. Igbafe, a leading chieftain of the APC remained undaunted, yesterday, insisting that Obaseki would not fly as the party’s candidate in the election.

APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has denied having a case to answer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, saying the assertions in the media were wrongly situated.

Millions of Britons were voting Thursday on whether to stay in the EU or quit, in a momentous referendum that has polarised the country and could change the face of Europe.

The Edo State government and the PDP were yesterday locked in a war of words over alleged plans to compromise the ongoing voter registration exercise.

The state chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih has rejected insinuations by the immediate past national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to the effect that the PDP primaries which produced Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was illegally convened.

The APC has initiated its move to puncture the unity in the PDP through alleged plans to woo the second runner-up in last Monday’s primary, Dr. Solomon Edbiri. The APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Vanguard learnt yesterday, visited Mr. Edebiri in his Benin home on Tuesday, a day after the PDP primary.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Godwin Obaseki yesterday said he decided to congratulate the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu because “I don’t play politics of bitterness”.

PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has lamented the condition of education in the state describing the red roof revolution of the present administration as political sloganeering deficient in quality and substance.

The APC Primary Election Appeals Committee has received two petitions from last Saturday’s primary election, Chairman of the Committee, Opeyemi Bamidele said yesterday.