{"id":5597,"date":"2020-06-19T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:49:16","slug":"obaseki-picks-nomination-form-joins-pdp-governorship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=5597","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki Picks Nomination Form, Joins PDP Governorship Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Obaseki Picks Nomination Form, Joins PDP Governorship Race<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Zainab Tanimu\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Kaduna, North -West, Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has today, Friday June, 2020 formally declared his position.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Governor who\u00a0dumped APC following his disqualification by party\u2019s Screening Committee last week made his declaration to contest under\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during a meeting with the party stakeholders at the party&#8217;s secretariat in Benin City, Edo state.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Obaseki has picked his\u00a0 nomination form for Edo 2020 governorship race and he is to contest the\u00a0PDP Primaries alongside three other aspirants come, the 23rd ofJune 2020.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He was received by the leadership of the party,\u00a0 Edo PDP Chairman, Hon Tony Aziegbemi at the state Secretariat admists top political appointees and the governor\u2019s followers who accompanied him to the venue.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obaseki Picks Nomination Form, Joins PDP Governorship Race Zainab Tanimu\u00a0 Kaduna, North -West, Nigeria Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has today, Friday June, 2020 formally declared his position. 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