{"id":32634,"date":"2020-09-25T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=32634"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:20:16","slug":"obaseki-may-leave-pdp-if-he-wants-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=32634","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki may leave PDP if he wants \u2013Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday said that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, who was recently re-elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may return to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) if he intends to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Wike said although he will be disappointed if such happened because PDP<\/a> \u201cclothed\u201d and \u201cgave him an umbrella\u201d when he was sacked by his party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor made this known on Friday during a programme \u2013 Sunrise Daily, on Channels TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obaseki defected from the APC to the PDP in June 2020 at the height of the battle with his predecessor and former National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He contested on the platform of the PDP in the September 19 governorship election and won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the interview, Governor Wike<\/a> who led the PDP campaign council for the Edo State governorship election was queried if he foresees Obaseki\u2019s defection, he said \u201cI don\u2019t want to discuss something that is not going to be possible. However, assuming it happens, so what? That is politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the governor believes that the PDP is no longer a party for him to actualise his vision and his mission, there is nothing wrong but I don\u2019t believe that it is going to happen because the governor has consistently told us that there is no way he will leave the PDP. If he leaves the PDP, people in Edo State will not be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that \u201cAnd he is somebody I have that trust in that he will not leave the party. This is a party that clothed him. This is a party that when it was raining, gave him an umbrella.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday said that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, who was recently re-elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may return to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) if he intends to. Mr Wike said although he will be disappointed if such happened because PDP \u201cclothed\u201d and \u201cgave […]<\/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":"\nObaseki may leave PDP if he wants \u2013Wike » 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=32634\" \/>\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=32634#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\":\"Obaseki may leave PDP if he wants \u2013Wike\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obaseki may leave PDP if he wants \u2013Wike » 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=32634","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=32634#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":"Obaseki may leave PDP if he wants \u2013Wike"}]}]}},"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":"Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday said that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, who was recently re-elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may return to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) if he intends to. Mr Wike said although he will be disappointed if such happened because PDP \u201cclothed\u201d and \u201cgave…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32634"}],"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=32634"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}