{"id":16775,"date":"2020-05-29T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T10:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T10:18:57","slug":"edo-guber-fresh-hurdle-for-ize-iyamu-as-apc-lg-chairmen-back-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775","title":{"rendered":"EDO GUBER: Fresh hurdle for Ize-Iyamu, as APC LG chairmen back Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chairmen of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 18 local government areas of Edo State have kicked against the waver granted Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu<\/a> by the National Working Committee of the party on May 21, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the party\u2019s LG chairmen, Ize-Iyamu is yet to meet the conditions for waiver to contest the governorship election on the platform of the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ize-Iyamu, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC late last year, has been chosen as the consensus candidate of the pro-Adams Oshiomhole faction of the party in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the chairmen, the decision to present Ize-Iyamu, the 2016 governorship candidate of the PDP as the consensus candidate of Edo APC would not stand, claiming that he was not a member of the party (APC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by their Chairman, Ben Oghomu, during a press conference on Thursday in Benin, the LG party bosses described Ize-Iyamu\u2019s May 26 consensus candidature in Abuja as null, void and of no effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also pledged to ensure that Governor Godwin Obaseki emerges victorious during the June 22 primary election of APC, using the indirect mode, adding that he would also win the governorship poll on September 19, thereby continuing in office beyond November 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wish to state for the avoidance of doubt that the purported agreement to return Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as a consensus candidate of the APC is without foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPastor Ize-Iyamu is not a member of our party. He led his followers out of APC in 2014 and even contested the governorship on the platform of PDP in 2016, which he lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dThe purported waiver granted Pastor Ize-Iyamu by the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC is ultra vires, null and void, as Article 31 of the party\u2019s constitution confers the power on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBesides, the conditions for waiver prescribed by the party\u2019s constitution have not been met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dThe truth is that Pastor Ize-Iyamu recently joined Edo People\u2019s Movement (EPM), which is a group organised by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole<\/a> to destabilise APC in Edo State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe party has a constitution and the constitution makes provisions on how things are done, including registration of new members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chairmen of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 18 local government areas of Edo State have kicked against the waver granted Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu by the National Working Committee of the party on May 21, 2020. According to the party\u2019s LG chairmen, Ize-Iyamu is yet to meet the conditions for waiver to contest the governorship election on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nEDO GUBER: Fresh hurdle for Ize-Iyamu, as APC LG chairmen back Obaseki » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"EDO GUBER: Fresh hurdle for Ize-Iyamu, as APC LG chairmen back Obaseki\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"EDO GUBER: Fresh hurdle for Ize-Iyamu, as APC LG chairmen back Obaseki » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16775#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"EDO GUBER: Fresh hurdle for Ize-Iyamu, as APC LG chairmen back Obaseki"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Chairmen of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 18 local government areas of Edo State have kicked against the waver granted Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu by the National Working Committee of the party on May 21, 2020. According to the party\u2019s LG chairmen, Ize-Iyamu is yet to meet the conditions for waiver to contest the governorship election on…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16775"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}